A biography for Luke Rockholdhasn’t been written yet.
“People probably don't give me the credit I deserve for holding the Strikeforce title, but the people who do know, know.”
“I love the liver kick.”
“Cain has proven himself as the best heavyweight of all time, and it would be hard to strip him.”
“The people around me is the only reason why I survive: Bob Cook and DeWayne Zinkin.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was never the bully: I was always the one trying to clean up the situation.”
“The more I stack, the more things I can buy: the more toys, the more houses, and everything. That's the motivation, but I'm also a competitive person. I need goals, and I need that competition and to drive for something.”
“The heart of the sport is about the top guys fighting each other. This isn't WWE; this is fighting.”
“Cardio is king. This is how you make sure you don't wear out in the fight.”
“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.”
“I always look for bigger and better things, and if the UFC wants to bring in some top contenders, I'm more than welcome to welcome them in our hexagon.”
“My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.”
“Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.”
“I have that brawler's mentality, and I can get into that realm, but when I'm at my best is when I'm patient, precise, and technical.”
“I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.”
“I've been chasing some paychecks. Modeling. I don't discriminate against paychecks. I've got to pay the bills.”
“I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.”
“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've always been a powerful kid.”