Quotes from Dustin Poirier

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

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.

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

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.

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.

Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times.

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 never took the easy route.

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.

If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.

Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.

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.

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.

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.

I try to work on the small things.

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.

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.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!