Top 45 Luke Rockhold Quotes

An interim title is just a guarantee at a title shot. If I’m going to fight the best guys in the world, I want a guarantee that I’m going to fight for the title.

I’m very confident on my feet.

I’m not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

The highs and lows of Vitor Belfort, I would not want to be that guy. Be on top of the world getting all these ‘knockouts of the night’ and all these awards of the year and then all of a sudden get shunned into the shadows. He leads a shady life, and it seems like karma might be coming back.

I think me and Werdum got some old beef from Strikeforce. He’s a guy I’ve always wanted to fight. I’ve thought it through, and I like the style matchup.

Jacare is a gangster. He’s been in the game for a long time.

I start kind of stiff, and then I understand the movement, the distance, and then I can start loosening up. That’s how fighting should be. That’s how I try to keep my mind.

Every time I’m in training mode, I’ve had to monitor what I’m eating. I’ll break 210 and be around 215 pounds. I know what it takes to compete with the best guys at 205. I’ve trained with them.

You have to be patient, efficient with your moves, and attuned to what’s happening with your body physically. The key is not to rush or panic. You wait and wait and wait – and then strike.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can’t kick. I’m not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

I used to get beat up by my brothers, and that kind of built me into the man I am.

I’m not here to dance around. I’m here to fight for titles.

I like big fights.

I’m not one to turn down opportunities.

There’s no point in fighting guys when there’s no structure, there’s no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

I think every fight helps for the next.

When you show me the right contract, I’ll sign the right contract.

I just don’t see how it is possible to be a vegetarian or vegan when you break your body down so much. You have to recover. You need those proteins and proper amino acids, like leucine, which only really comes from animal fats.

I just don’t see where Chris Weidman is going to threaten me. He’s a tough guy, but I’m better on my feet, better on the ground. He’s not going to threaten me with his wrestling.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

I like fighting clean. I’ve always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

I don’t pull out of fights. I fight through injuries. I don’t care what the circumstances are.

It’s nice to hit and not be hit back.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can’t take a break.

I want my rematch with Vitor Belfort, and I’d like it here in the States. And I’ll go through anyone I need to get it, especially Michael Bisping.

I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I’m not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.

I don’t think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

I love the liver kick.

I’m not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There’s a competitive and a technical level of them that I won’t understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I’ve done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there’s just nothing like fighting.

When I was a kid, when I was first getting excited about the opposite sex, fragrance was the thing. If you look good, you smell good, and you feel good.

I’m a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

Naturally, when you’re a younger brother with two older brothers, I mean, they’re going to beat on you, and they’re going to make you… you’re going to grow up differently. You’re going to turn into a little animal.

Bisping, he’s a piece of work. The guy likes to run his mouth. I look forward to shutting it.

I cut out the partying a lot. I haven’t had any money to party. All I’ve been able to do is train and work on what I need.

In fighting, when someone’s signed up to fight me, I’m not humble. I’ve never been humble.

Cardio is king. This is how you make sure you don’t wear out in the fight.

I’ve had to take out a couple of loans; I’m not gonna lie. I want to pay off my debts. I want to start stacking some cash and set myself up for the future.

I’m not going to take off time and lose money to go fight.

I always believed in myself.

Men back up their words. Little boys run away.

I defended my Strikeforce belt twice, and you didn’t see me lose any of my intensity, drive, or motivation. That’s just the way I am. I will always be hungry.

The people around me is the only reason why I survive: Bob Cook and DeWayne Zinkin.

I’ve got a lot of natural talent, and I’m not wasting it.

We’ve seen the true colours of Bisping; they come out after he fights. He likes to spit on people after fights.