Quotes from Dustin Poirier

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

I'm not really chasing rematches.

You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

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

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

My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.

All weight cuts are hard.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.

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.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

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

I'm familiar with adversity.