A biography for Dustin Poirierhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.”
“My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.”
“I don't see myself ever going up to 170.”
“I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm proud of everything I accomplished in this sport.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.”
“Nothing in my life was ever easy.”
“This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing's for sure.”
“That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.”
“I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.”
“Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.”
“Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.”
“I'm familiar with adversity.”