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.

Next quotes

• Dustin Poirier:

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

• Dustin Poirier:

  Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbr

• Dustin Poirier:

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

• Dustin Poirier:

  I'm proud of everything I accomplished in this sport.

• Dustin Poirier:

  I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145.

• Dustin Poirier:

  Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight,

• Dustin Poirier:

  Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of ha

• Dustin Poirier:

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

• Dustin Poirier:

  Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries

• Dustin Poirier:

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