Dustin Poirier Quotes

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

Nothing hits harder than that: nothing more frustrating than your body giving up on you before your heart does.

Mentally, I could fight forever. I feel I'm the best fighter on the planet. My mind says I can fight forever, but physically, I won't be able to do it.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Life is an incurable disease.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

To have a body is to suffer.

Pain is weakness leaving the body,

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I've got an old body.

When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.