Dustin Poirier Quotes

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

Every experience makes you grow.

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.

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

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

You live, you learn.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

I been in this game a long time.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

Maybe we all change over time.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

When I'm competing, I need to be strong.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.