Dustin Poirier Quotes

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

I'll focus on my training, no matter who I fight.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.

I'm going to fight every play.

I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.

A champion must be ready at all times.

Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.