Dustin Poirier

Mixed martial artist

1989-01-19

Dustin Poirier is an American mixed martial artist who competed in the UFC and held the interim UFC Lightweight Championship in 2019. He fought professionally from 2009 to 2025 and became known for his lightweight and featherweight runs.

Quotes by Dustin Poirier

I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.
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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.
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Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.
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I've been the underdog my whole life.
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That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.
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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.
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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.
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My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.
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I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.
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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.
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I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.
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Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.
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Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.
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