Dustin Poirier Quotes

Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

You have to be patient, efficient with your moves, and attuned to what's happening with your body physically. The key is not to rush or panic. You wait and wait and wait - and then strike.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.