Dustin Poirier Quotes

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

That's my aim. To fight for a world title and become a world champion.

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

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

I will become a five-division champion.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

I want to fight the best in the world.

I had a goal to become the undisputed champion in cruiserweight, and I achieved this goal.

I want to fight the top champions, I want to fight for titles.

I want to secure my name. I'll fight who I have to fight for the belt.

I'm in the boxing game to be a champion. That's why I'm in boxing.

When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.

I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself.

Obviously, every fighter wants to be the world champion, and that's what I want to achieve.

I just have to do what I have to do. I have to defend my belt.

It would be an honour to knock out Botha.

I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.

I'd like to fight and get close to that title shot - that's all I'm interested in. My whole purpose is to fight for the world title.