Dustin Poirier Quotes

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.