Quotes from Dustin Poirier

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn't really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.

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.

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.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

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.

Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.