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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Partying
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I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Championship
Best Money World
Best Money Fight
No Sense
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Scared
Duck
Toughest
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Mentality
Patient
Precise
Realm
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I am a very technical guy. I'm proud of my technique, my fluidity, and my skill; that's what I work on every day. I try to out-technique guys.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Fluidity
Technique
Work I Am Day
Skill
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Percent
Injuries
Weapon
Leg
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Bulk
Go For It
Lift
Weights
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If I get a guy that can take my shots and withstand my arsenal for the first round or two, I think you're going to see the best of me coming forward.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Arsenal
Best Me See
Round
Withstand
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
Welcome
Always Better Look
Better Things
Look Better Always
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Feel Good
Fragrance
Smell
Opposite Sex
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Beef
Always Fight Me
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Cash
Debts
Loans
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Intensity
Always I Am Me
Twice
I Am Me Lose
Belt
Always Me Lose
Defended
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I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Principles
Nowhere
Morals
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Interim
Best Fight World
Guarantee
Title
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Bisping is a tough guy. You can't write him off. He's good at everything. He's been able to beat some of the top guys out there because he can expose their weaknesses.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Tough Guy
Expose
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Distance
Stiff
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When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Relaxed
Tense
Timing
Cloud
Forcing
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Tough Guy
Chris
Threaten
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I'm going to shut Chris Weidman down in the first round. I'm gonna expose him in the second round. And I'm gonna finish him with a left kick followed by a left punch, simultaneously.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Chris
Expose
Finish
Followed
Round
Punch
Shut
Simultaneously
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Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Art
Kids
Mma
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Be Patient
Efficient
Panic
Patient
Your Body
Physically
Attuned
Wait
Happening
Rush
Strike
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To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Staging
Athletes
Holding
No Sense
Televised
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Compete
Best Time Training
Mode
Trained
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Younger Brother
Older Brothers
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I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Bike
Cardio
Numbers
Your Body
Me Better Body
Done Your Me
Sucks
Circuit
Better Done Your
Gotta
Workouts
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Competitive Person
Houses
Stack
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Fats
Vegan
Vegetarian
Your Body
Amino
Proper
Recover
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Anytime you spar at a new dojo, whether it's in Japan, Brazil, or Thailand, the fighters come after the new guy. It's a way to test yourself against the best and to sharpen your technical skills and push yourself to be the best you can be.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Brazil
Japan
Thailand
Best Yourself Your
Anytime
Fighters
Sharpen
Technical
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Faster
Fifth
Fourth
Relaxed
Rounds
Sparring
Best Game Way
Looser
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Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy the moment and let it be. If I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform and do it my best. Don't focus on winning or losing.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Mma
Winning
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I was supposed to fight a guy back in the day. He didn't shower, specifically to throw off his opponents. Thank God I got injured, and I couldn't fight the fight. I was so worried about it. I was like, 'Oh my God - I heard about this guy.' It was the worst ever.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Injured
Opponents
Thank God
Worried
Oh My God
Shower
Specifically
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Competing
Certain Extent
Extent
Teams
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I always knew what I could do in there and believed that I would win the world title. But when it actually happens, when your dreams all come true, it is the culmination of a life's work. The feeling you get, I don't have words for it. I don't know how to describe it.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Culmination
Your Dreams
Life Dreams Work
Describe
Title
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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.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
Awards
Highs
Leads
Shadows
Shunned
Sudden
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