Dustin Poirier Quotes

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

It's not about improving when you play; it's every day, in training, you have to work on every aspect of your game, and that's something I've really enjoyed.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

When I started wrestling, I sucked. I hated losing, so I started doing pushups and more squats, and then I did summer wrestling and learned different styles.

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

I train for six days in a week for eight to ten hours of practice per day.

I've been training quite hard.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

In three weeks, you can improve a lot. You can train a lot. You can come up with a proper plan.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.