Quotes from Dustin Poirier

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

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

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

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.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.

I'm not the same fighter I used to be.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

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.

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.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight.

I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.

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

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.

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

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.

I've never pulled out of a fight. I've never missed weight.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

I've always fought the best guys.

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.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.