Top 150 Back Up Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Back Up Quotes from famous people such as Gordon Hayward, Gordon Bethune, Kathy Mattea, Heidi Klum, Andrew Buchan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There's nothing like doing in-game stuff that you can't

There’s nothing like doing in-game stuff that you can’t get from drills. You’re guarding somebody, you’re reacting, you’re getting a rebound and trying to go straight back up with it.
Gordon Hayward
There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can’t build it back up overnight.
Gordon Bethune
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I’d get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I’d back up and get it together again.
Kathy Mattea
I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I’m grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I’m a really lucky person.
Heidi Klum
I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.
Andrew Buchan
I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, ’cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
Jim Murphy
A writer’s job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
Barry Hannah
My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up with his first wife. It just happened to be that when he was going to get back up on his feet, my mother was there.
John Carter Cash
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
Mickey Rourke
I always think, medically… you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you’re feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors’ offices, so the more information the better.
Lisa Edelstein
You just have to believe in what you’re saying and be able to explain why you said it. There’s nothing I say that I can’t back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I’m not afraid of getting in trouble.
Jim Norton
I’d get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00 P.M., get home at midnight, and try to do whatever homework I could before getting back up for 7:00 A.M. But I did it because I liked dancing, and I loved the music.
Jessie Reyez
Boxing is an imitation of life. You get knocked down and you get back up. You don’t quit no matter how dark it gets, or whatever adversity passes your way. You just got to keep biting down and fighting, coming up the other side and not quitting, no matter what.
Caleb Plant
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.
Anatoli Boukreev
Having your father to help you to get back up is good, but you need to get up by yourself and walk alone. Life goes on.
Lyoto Machida
I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.
Dennis Muren
It’s important to keep getting back up. It’s part of the game.
Daniel James
Constantly getting knocked down and picking myself back up, the relationships I’ve been able to form with all the different people in the different cities, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it’s something that I take pride in. It’s something that I’ll back up.
J. D. Martinez
I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.
Johnathon Schaech
You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
Kerli
In 1980, we just ran out of steam. After about 15 years, Don Henley and Glenn Frey came to me and said, ‘We have been thinking of starting the Eagles back up again, and we can’t do it without you, and we can’t do it unless you’re sober.’ I was just about homeless.
Joe Walsh
I have used astrology to send positive messages: ‘You can do it, even if you fall, get back up again.’
Walter Mercado
My head is filled with things I think I should be doing or should’ve done already. I slow down because I doubt myself or I get anxious or have a bout of depression. Then I have to build my confidence back up, and once that happens, then I power through until the next time.
Jacob Anderson
Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I’m a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you’re trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you’re also going out there trying to be competitive.
Ryan Howard
Your highs can’t be too high, and your lows can’t be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.
Anne Donovan
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.
Sherry Argov
Once I close the doors, it’s closed. I don’t open it back up. That’s kind of me as a human being. That’s just one of the things about me… But yeah, for me, I don’t close anything until I’m officially done.
Chris Bosh
My dad owns his own towing business, and my dad used to tow Hulk Hogan’s cars back and forth from Clearwater to different shops and stuff. And they had a relationship where when the cars would get done getting fixed, he’d pick it back up and take it back to Hulk Hogan’s house.
Shaquem Griffin
Pippin’ was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.
Ann Reinking
Man, I'm always going to back up my teammates.

Man, I’m always going to back up my teammates.
Jayson Tatum
When you fall, get right back up.
Lindsey Vonn
It’s nice to see the results. You work so hard and you want to see results to back up the work that you’ve done.
Gary Woodland
I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.
Lil Durk
There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it’s getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.
Jessie Reyez
I don’t know how to back up.
Jake LaMotta
Your natural instinct when people are throwing punches at you is to back up. That just makes it more dangerous for you. You’ll get hurt that way. You’ve got to teach yourself to go forward, move your feet and move your head. I’m not going to lie, that was tough for me to learn.
Jake Hager
I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want – something you can’t do in a theater.
Travis Beacham
Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again.
MO
There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there’s nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.
Eddie Guerrero
When I got knocked down, I got back up.
Andy Ruiz Jr.
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.
Paul Ince
The ultimate goal is to get back up here to the Miami Marlins.
Eddy Alvarez
A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.
Michael Bisping
It used to get my back up because people would only say ‘he does well for his size’ and it’s like, forget the size, I do well because I do well.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally… I was always in newborn-deer mode.
Betty Gilpin
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn’t understand. That was very hard.
Mariel Hemingway
The sun rays are more powerful at high altitudes and the snow bounces the rays right back up at you. Shiseido sun care products are epic for protecting me and not irritating my skin.
Hannah Teter
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the ’84 Olympics.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
Joel Edgerton
I wasn’t afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it’s possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you’re stronger from that.
Shaun Livingston
It’s all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.
Alex de Minaur
There’s no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
Steven Gerrard
It’s OK if you fail a few times. Just keep getting back up until you nail it.
Carmella
That’s the key thing I learned from making ‘The East’: It doesn’t matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there’s a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.
Zal Batmanglij
If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you’ll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It’s all about overcoming.
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
When we go, as a first responder, when we go into a community that’s been hit with a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, the first thing we do is try to make sure the electric grid is back up and running in order to provide the drinking water for those communities.
Andrew R. Wheeler
It’s not hard to get into a teen’s head, because it’s all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven’t had your heart broken before, you don’t know that you’ll be able to get back up again.
Jenny Han
You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
Isaac Hanson
People have to realize that just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you’re perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.
Tim Tebow
People always go to the ground with me trying to just h

People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.
Demian Maia
I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It’s all about stamina – your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.
Leah Remini
I’ve had to work so hard in my career to get to this point, from leaving City and going to the Championship to work my way back up. I believed I could do it, and I’m grateful to Burnley and Tottenham for letting me do it in the Premier League.
Kieran Trippier
I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.
Jennifer Lopez
It’s the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.
Mark Hunt
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
Olivia Wilde
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
Sarah Jessica Parker
A lot of times you can lose the MP3s – it’s a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
Afrika Bambaataa
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They’d wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
Parker Posey
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I’ve forgotten to back up the manuscript?
Rick Yancey
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
Louise Leakey
When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus – He will never fail.
Monica Johnson
When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn’t hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn’t get back up.
Jeff Hardy
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
Bibi Bourelly
Of course every player has to accept criticism and it has happened to me. But you have got to get back up.
Patrick van Aanholt
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
Barbara Corcoran
The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
Jerry Jeff Walker
I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I don’t believe in diets. They don’t necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight down, but as soon as you finish, you naturally go back up. I keep everything in my diet – gluten and sugar – I just cut it down a little bit and train more. It’s not rocket science.
Paul Hollywood
Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It’s something that’s really stuck with me.
Philip Rivers
I picked Dad’s guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.
Dustin Lynch
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It’s not just creating a hit show – it’s building shows to back up that hit show; it’s creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
Leslie Moonves
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
Joel Osteen
But – but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you’re going to mess up. That’s what grace is for. We’re going to fall, but we’ve got to get back up. And you’ve got to improve. And that’s what I’m all about.
Tim Tebow
Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
Fabrizio Moreira
I’m able to go to 125, challenge and win that title there, and then go back up to 135 pounds and compete with the best of them there.
Cody Garbrandt
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
Michael Ironside
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don’t look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don’t back up their beards.
Don Drysdale
At one point, I didn’t get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up – come pick me up because I couldn’t physically walk up the hill.
Tanya Tucker
I'm just going to be myself. And when you're bein' your

I’m just going to be myself. And when you’re bein’ yourself, you don’t have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don’t got to sugarcoat nothin’.
John Wall
When I’m sad, I let myself be sad, but at the same time, I’ve been finding ways to pick myself back up.
Jessica Long
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
Chuck Yeager
It’s really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it’s true.
Ivan Moody
I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I’ve come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries. The movement that causes the initial jolt of pain you always kind of are tentative when you have to make that movement, especially as you kind of build back up.
J. J. Redick
Everything that’s going on within the peloton – there’s about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it – I love the fact that it’s so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!
David Millar
Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
Henry Cloud
As I’ve gotten older and I’ve watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It’s just an itch; it’s a nagging itch to go back there.
Pierce Brosnan
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
Bill Walton
After weigh-ins you’re doing wheat pasta or you’re trying to carb back up. This was actually really throwing me off, causing an inflammatory response in my digestive system, in my brain, in my body. Throwing off my mind.
Diego Sanchez
Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
Charles Kennedy
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
Allen Iverson
Our community system is completely broken down, and you need to build that back up again and make people feel that they can make a change in life and not just sit around playing video games or on their iPhones – that they can get out there and make a difference.
Holly Branson
Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That’s just always been my mentality. I’m not really fazed by anything. It’s in the past. There’s nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face – and make sense of – their own existence.
Paul Kalanithi
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
Richard Branson
You just gotta back up your words. Don’t be scared from it, or don’t shy from it.
Myles Garrett
During my stint in IT, I worked and used the free time to browse the net for research on cinema. In the evenings, I did theatre. Had I not been successful, I would have gone back to my IT job. It was my back up plan.
Rakshit Shetty
I not only went back to the ‘All Stars’ gig for myself but also for my fans. I wanted them to see the story of even if you get knocked down, you get back up, you keep going and you can win.
Shangela
Sometimes you fall down, but you have to pick yourself back up.
Vitor Belfort
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Charlie Hunnam
I’ve always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I’ve ever known is to keep going.
Gary Rossington
I’m in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don’t want to keep crawling back up. I’m too old to be doing that, man.
Chris Arreola
If the publicly passed campaign finance laws had not been struck down by the Supreme Court, Club for Growth Action would be illegal, and Heritage Action wouldn’t have the SuperPAC threat to back up its small ad purchases.
Zephyr Teachout
And I can tell you that history will back up what I’m about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
Marco Rubio
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
Oliver North
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.
Julian Baggini
Love makes me vulnerable. In business I’m tough on myself – I’m like a drill sergeant. If I’m down, I’m used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can’t do that.
Nicole Scherzinger
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases – ‘sustainability,’ ‘the brand,’ etc. – about rugby.
Alun Wyn Jones
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
Bill Nighy
I don’t know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, ‘I’m going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I’m going to knock you out.’ The times I go down and get back up – that’s when I’m the most dangerous.
Naseem Hamed
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the

Power doesn’t back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
Malcolm X
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.
Alan Stern
With the coaches, you don’t want to hear everybody saying, ‘Move over! Back up! Do this!’ Let’s find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, ‘Let me help you. I’ve been there before.’
Lauren Ashley Carter
Some people get knocked down and they have a hard time getting back up. But when your mind is right and you have a goal and you’re trying to achieve that goal, nothing can deter you from that.
Ahmad Rashad
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
Walter Kirn
I can fall on my face at times, but I get right back up, dust myself off, laugh, and keep it moving. I never take things or myself too seriously in my personal life.
Kenya Moore
Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‘You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.’ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
Bruno Mars
I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn’t want to show them that it hurt.
Theo Walcott
You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom – I’m a true believer that it’s OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse.
Katy Mixon
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you’ve lost.
Stacy London
‘Life Changes’ is a song that we feel really connects to the spirit of our band and our fans. It’s got that positive vibe we always want to put out there, and the message – no matter how many times you get knocked down, always get back up – will forever be part of the GC story.
Benji Madden
You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.
Victoria Osteen
I lived in Bandra East, on the 12th floor. There was a small earthquake; I could feel the building shaking. I was halfway down the stairs when I realised I’d forgotten my laptop, and all my scripts were on it. If I lost the laptop, I’d lose all my work. I ran back up to get it!
Rajkumar Hirani
I’ve gotten very used to falling off of things. It’s almost like that’s my skill! I’m great at falling down and getting back up.
Leigh Bardugo
You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
Julian Treasure
It’s awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I’m not on the same wavelength.
James William Middleton
They’ve pushed me down a big ravine, but I’ll get back up to the top.
Tyler Hamilton
Even if I do miss a shot, I’m going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I’m not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.
Andre Drummond
If the Big Show lands on you when you’re on the ground, you’re not getting back up. He’ll pick you up like a sack of crap and toss you over the top rope.
Randy Orton
I grew up riding horses and one of the most important things I learned was that when you fall off, you have to get right back up in the saddle.
Katie Hill
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
Nicole Scherzinger
When the fight goes to the ground, it doesn’t take long until I finish it or come back up. Straus does that typical American game plan, that boring strategy with wrestling, taking you down and keeping you there, but this strategy won’t work with me.
Patricio Freire
Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you – one worm or Trojan is all it takes.
Kevin Mitnick
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it’s a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month’s time, so it’s going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I’m good to go so far.
Picabo Street
It’s tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.
Byron Howard