Dustin Poirier Quotes

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

To remain young one must change.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

People do change.

As I've got older, the nerves aren't there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.

You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

I am a different player to the one that went to Man Utd. at 20. I am 25 now; I have played a lot more games, and I understand what I am better at and what I am not good at and what I need to improve on. The player that went to Man Utd. is totally different to now.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Without death there would be very little progress.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.