Dustin Poirier Quotes

When you can't do road work for a week-and-a-half, that's really hard on your weight cut.

I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

I don't get fat, I get skinny.

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

I hate cutting weight. I hate making weight. I hate dieting. But I'm going to make this weight. I can't wait to do that when I step on them scales.

Cutting weight is always rough, especially for guys like myself that make a significant cut to make a number.

I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.

I've never had a problem making featherweight. Of course, it wasn't easy, but it also was never an issue.

I had to cut weight a few years ago, and I felt like I'll be better if I was lighter. I felt like my conditioning would be better if I eat better.

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can't. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.

I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.

There's no way to fake weight loss - you just kinda have to not eat.

I had trouble making weight before in my career.

I don't believe in crash dieting.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

Sometimes I wish I could just fight at 155 pounds.

The first half of the 2014-15 season was a disaster for me in relation to my weight.

Unfortunately, our sport has a weight limit, so every season, I have to lose weight. You just get tired of not eating the way you want to eat, so in the off-season, I'll binge and gain a few pounds and then have to lose them back.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I find it so hard to lose weight: it takes me weeks and weeks of dieting and training just to lose three pounds.

It's only when I have to do some bare body shots that I cut down on fat.

It's not easy in England. It's so competitive.

Crazy diets, good diets, you can't name one I didn't do.