Quotes by Dustin Poirier - Page 2

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Broke
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Everyday
Grows
Guy
Gym
New Stuff
Relevant
Stuff
Stay
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If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Hurting
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Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Aches
Pains
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Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Amount
Belief
Champion
Crazy
Determination
Grit
Self
Takes
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I've put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that's what I want to be left behind in my legacy.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Legacy
Draw
Every Time
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I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Chasing
Closer
Champion Fight World
World Champion
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Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Patient
Improved
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Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Athlete
Decent
Scumbags
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Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Cutting
Intense
Months
Training
Weight
Often
Fight
Lightweight
Took
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I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and what I do for a living.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Hard Work
Mma
Who I Am
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If a champ has to take a long layoff then I think that's the only time interim titles should be introduced to the division.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Division
Interim
Only Time
Titles
Champ
Introduced
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Contract
Prepare
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You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Bags
Tougher
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighters
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The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Opponent
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You can't just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you'll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighter
Contract
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Florida
South Florida
Craft
Out Here
Resting
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I feel like everybody's who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal - to be the UFC world champion.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
Fighters
World Champion
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My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighter
Lessons
Made
Rolling
Today
Whole
Today I Am Me
Am
Career
Today Me I Am
Defeats
Downs
Learned
Ups
Victories
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People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Concrete
Construction
Fields
Labor
Oil
Works
Physical
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Time Great Fight
Nights
Entertain
World Champion
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I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Interim
Accomplishments
Champ
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Car
Next
Sleep
Wife
Years
Years Ago
Car Wife Me
Drive
Fight
Her
She
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I feel like I've always been a great fighter but I'm learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with emotion and adrenaline and going out there and brawling like a maniac.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Adrenaline
Emotion
Overwhelmed
Maniac
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Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Landscape
Injuries
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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.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Submit
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Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights and did a lot of things right to move up the rankings and I have to abandon all that moving to 155 starting fresh.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Abandon
Fights
Sucks
Fought
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Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Best Time World
Evolving
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There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn't really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Stress
Great Fight Me
Great Show
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They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Growth
Little Bit
Caused
Bone
Extra
Round
Head
Hip
Stressing
Trim
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I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Celebrate
Enjoy Life
Life Work Good
Fights
Getting Better
Spot
Overwhelm
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Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighter
Refined
Rough
Upbringing
Money Great Fight
Fighters
No Problems
Penn
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Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.
Dustin Poirier / Mixed Martial Artist
Critique
Done
Guy
Made
Stronger
Type
Win Or Lose
Come
Done Always I Am
Mistakes
Away
Back
Better Always Done
Better Always Your
Could
Draw
Ever
Round
Improve
Performance
Lose
Put
Tighten
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