Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Dustin Poirier - Page 2

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Last updated on April 19, 2025.

I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.

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The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

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If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy's feet are planted, you look a lot better.

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I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

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I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

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I'm never going to go down to 145 again.

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I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have 'Fight of the Nights' and have exiting matchups, but at the same time I want to be the undisputed world champion.

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The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

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I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.

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If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

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I'm the kind of guy that grows, and that's what I do everyday in the gym. Work on new stuff and stay relevant.

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Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.

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When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

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I'm not a frontrunner. I'm a complete fighter.

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Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

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All weight cuts are hard.

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I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

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I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

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I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

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This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.

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Fighting is what I do.

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Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

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Nothing in my life was ever easy.

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This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

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I try to work on the small things.

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You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

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I've always fought the best guys.

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I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

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I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

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I never took the easy route.

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Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

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