“I never took the easy route.” — Dustin Poirier Quote

I never took the easy route.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.

A lot of guys would prefer to go the business route by getting as much as they can for the least amount of risk than to actually put everything on the line.

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.

My music has given me a confidence I wouldn't have had if I had gone a different route.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.