What podcasts say about Dustin Poirier
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What Dustin Poirier has said on podcasts
25 statements · 8 positive · 13 negative · 4 neutral
Alcohol has severely damaged Dustin Poirier’s father’s life.
“Alcohol has ruined his life.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 7:22
Alcohol does not benefit Poirier, especially during poor mental health.
“alcohol has never benefited me, especially in times like that where I'm mentally not the best.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 13:13
Mental health requires continuous work rather than a one-time fix.
“it's not something that you just fix. It's something you have to work on always.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 18:50
Fighting and gym training functioned as therapy for Poirier.
“the gym was a part of therapy for me. Fighting was a part of therapy, you know, for me.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 21:42
Poirier intends to abstain completely from alcohol.
“I'm going to cut alcohol completely out of my life.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 28:30
Poirier evaluates alcohol as wholly harmful to him and recommends eliminating it.
“it's not benefiting me in any way. So I got to cut it out, cut it off from my life.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 28:45
Quitting alcohol will benefit Poirier and his children in the future.
“this decision, this arrest, this quit drinking for the rest of my life is going to benefit me and my kids in the future.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 36:56
Poirier predicts his children will never see him intoxicated.
“my son and my daughter is never going to grow up and see me intoxicated.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 38:47
Having no goals makes Poirier a danger to himself.
“I'm a danger to myself when I'm have nothing. No. No goal circle on my calendar.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 44:35
All-or-nothing personalities can become dangerous when directed toward fighting or drinking.
“you have to be all in at something. Those kind of people who are Built like that, whether it's fighting or drinking or whether it's good or bad, you're going all in. It's dangerous.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 46:07
Athletes may redirect intense commitment toward harmful activities after losing their sport.
“when they don't have the fighting, then they go all in with the other things.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 46:20
Managing Poirier’s mental health likely requires daily lifelong effort.
“this is everyday work for the rest of your life. Most likely, I'm pretty sure.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 51:10
Suppressing emotions eventually causes them to emerge in another way.
“you bottle it up so long until it finds a way out, you know?”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 53:00
Excessive busyness may cause people to neglect their mental health.
“Maybe I was being too busy. Maybe I wasn't focusing on my mental health and myself as much.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 55:16
The airport incident caused Poirier to lose sponsors, gigs, and money.
“That day cost me not only embarrassment and embarrassment to my family. It cost me a lot of money, too, you know, I'm losing sponsors, I'm losing gigs and losing things that I had set up, you know.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 59:47
Poirier believes his finances are sufficient for lifelong financial independence.
“I don't have to work another day in my life.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:05:38
Poirier believes he can accomplish anything he commits himself to.
“I feel like anything I set my mind to, I can accomplish. I can make it happen.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:14:22
Poirier believes his CTE status cannot be confirmed until after death.
“we won't know until I pass away. And they study my brain if I. If I have it or not.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:17:27
Poirier’s neurologist suspects brain-side communication is impaired by septum separation.
“the neurologist thinks my left and right side aren't communicating as smoothly as they should because of the separation.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:19:09
Poirier estimates a five-percent chance of returning to the UFC.
“Five percent.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:20:49
Poirier believes UFC eligibility would require six months of clean drug testing.
“I think I'd have to do, like, six months of clean drug testing before I'm eligible to compete again.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:21:10
Family members cannot do much to help an unwilling person with addiction.
“if he doesn't want to help himself, we can only do so much”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:23:32
Poirier recommends staying offline and maintaining daily self-improvement routines.
“Stay off the Internet, continue to work on myself. Have good mornings. That's it.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:25:53
Poirier believes his public platform benefits as many people as possible.
“I truly, honestly, 100% believe I'm doing it. You know, I think I'm using the platform I built through hard work to benefit as many people as I can.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:29:50
The Good Fight Foundation plans to distribute approximately 1,300 supply-filled backpacks in Louisiana.
“in a couple of weeks, we have the backpack back to school drive. We do. We do probably 1300 backpacks filled with every school supply on the school supply list for Louisiana.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:31:28
Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.
What others have said about Dustin Poirier
4 statements · 2 positive · 2 negative
Dustin Poirier has accumulated brain injuries and neurological damage.
“he's had too many brain injuries, and that's. He's got some sort of a separation between the two halves of his brain”
Open the episode · #2540 - Travis BarkerListen at 1:08:30
Dustin Poirier should stop fighting to avoid worsening neurological damage.
“for him, it's best to not be fighting anymore”
Open the episode · #2540 - Travis BarkerListen at 1:09:09
Poirier believes his finances are sufficient for lifelong financial independence.
“I don't have to work another day in my life.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:05:38
Poirier believes he can accomplish anything he commits himself to.
“I feel like anything I set my mind to, I can accomplish. I can make it happen.”
Open the episode · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.Listen at 1:14:22
Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.