Vicente Luque

“I'm never going to say 'I'll only fight this guy.' No, I'm ready to fight anyone.”

“From 15 years old starting to train to 17 when I went professional, all that could've gone away in just one fight.”

“You can go to a hospital and the doctors can tell you have something terrible, and you might never fight again. But if you believe, you have faith, you work hard, and do what you're supposed to do, you can turn things around.”

“Leon is a really good fighter in the sense of technique and strategy. He's a really good fighter. I fought him back in 2017. He had a really good game plan, he beat me on that fight. It was a close one but he beat me.”

“I walk forward, I put pressure and look for the knockout all the time.”

“I watched a lot of 'Wonderboy' fighting and when I was in there I kind of was a little bit nervous, a little bit excited because I was fighting a guy that had already fought for the title. After that loss, I realize, man, these guys are just like me. They've worked their way up and they are there because they deserve it.”

“I respect Khamzat's hype and the way that he's building it. It's his choice and his career. He knows what's best for him. He wants to build it that way, I have no problem with that.”

“That's something that I like to make sure I don't have any injuries and that I stay not too far from the weight so that in two weeks, I know that two weeks is time enough for me to make 170.”

“I think nobody gets anywhere by themselves.”

“That was my plan for 2019 - to fight as much as my body allowed me.”

“I want challenges to show I'm here to go after the belt.”

“I started so young, and I was 17 and I didn't plan things out. I had two and three fights and I was accepting fights against guys who had 20, 30, 40 fights. You look back on it and you realize that wasn't the right thing to do, that it's hard to be ready for those kinds of opponents when you're so young and so inexperienced.”

“Let's say we're rolling, I'll try to submit you. If we're sparring, I'll try to dominate, to take you down, to move. I'll always trying to dominate the training session because I think like, 'If this guy is my opponent one day, I want to start dominating him now. I'll show him we're not playing here.'”

“I learned Portuguese, English and Spanish. It was great for me. My family always forced me to speak in every language.”

“I wasn't able to submit Bryan Barberena because he's extremely tough, man. I got to some positions but he didn't tap.”

“Barberena is a tough guy, but in the end, I was able to put him out.”

“I like to fight forward and do not leave it to the judges.”

“Larkin is an interesting fight, especially for the fans. I'm a striker and he also has high level striking. Everyone would like to watch that kind of fight, where both guys would be trying to knock the other one out for three rounds.”

“To me, even in training, I try to do my best and win. In a healthy way, of course, not trying to hurt anyone.”

“I love to fight, I love challenges.”