A biography for Dustin Poirierhasn’t been written yet.
“My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's not hard to look great against a guy who isn't moving a lot.”
“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.”
“I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.”
“I'm never going to go down to 145 again.”
“Fighting is what I do.”
“No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.”
“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.”
“I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.”
“Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.”
“I'm not really chasing rematches.”
“Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.”
“I'm a complete fighter and I'm not scared, I'm very willing to use every part of the game to get the win by any means necessary.”
“Fighting, you have to be selfish.”
“All weight cuts are hard.”
“I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.”
“I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.”