Top 210 Knocked Quotes

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn’t do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time – once they gave it to you, you couldn’t remember how long you’d been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I’d never write again.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don’t think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, ‘Oh, you’re just being like a crazed other party.’

Until you go through a bereavement, you don’t know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you’re on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it’s humiliating.

I’m a realist and I’m not going to shy away from being knocked out.

When I get knocked down, I’m going to get up and knock you down – and I’m going to hurt you.

I was about 17 or 18 years old, and Chris Rock’s ‘Bring the Pain’ came out, and I was obsessed. You know, it just hit on everything that was going on at that time and was such an in-the-moment special, and he knocked it out of the park.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he’s ruined it. I can’t make another joke about him.

‘Trap House’ is one of my favorite songs off ‘300 Days 300 Nights’ mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it and knocked it out on the spot in Atlanta.

I don’t think its better to grow up normal and get the measles and mumps and have your front teeth knocked out.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this ‘thing called depression’, and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

To be honest with you, getting knocked out isn’t that bad. It’s not what everybody makes it out to be.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn’t expecting it. I’ve had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

I’ve been through so much damn adversity, I’ve had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.

I understand people want to see me get knocked out.

People can look at my style and my faults, point out all the things I didn’t do as well as other fighters but I was never knocked out or stopped.

You can be knocked down, but it doesn’t mean you’re out.

I had kissed a girl in the second season of ‘Community,’ but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling’s teeth out.

A lot of greats from England have fought in New York. I remember when Naseem Hamed fought at Madison Square Garden against Kevin Kelley and knocked him out.

I have knocked at almost every door, from government offices to private companies, pleading for money and facilities to start my athletics school. It has been a tough mission. But I am thrilled that it is now a reality.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: ‘Oh, you’re working on it right now?’

I didn’t have capital and influence in this industry. So I bought yellow pages and knocked each door of the company located at industrial parks.

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that’s fine, but I’ve found that if you haven’t been knocked down a little bit, then you’re probably not going to be hanging with me too much.

Taika grabbed me and went, ‘Come and meet these guys’. He knocked on this really massive campervan and then the door opened and there’s Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo peering down, then giving me high-fives and hugs. I was like, ‘Oh my god.’

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they’d been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

It was my father who – after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a ‘borrowed’ key and knocked down a wall of the garage – convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.

When I’m retired, I want to be able to tell my kids I played in a European Cup final. I don’t want to have to say I watched one from the substitutes’ bench, then kept getting knocked out in the quarters and semis.

When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while – when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That’s the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.

Pacquiao has been stopped a ‘couple of times by body shots and has been knocked out and I don’t think there’s anything you can do to improve your ribs or chin.

When I fought GSP and knocked him down I got really excited and punched myself out.

You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars. But if you’re a leader, the people you’ve counted on will help you up. And if you’re a leader, the people who count on you need you on your feet.

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.

There are two ways I would consider retirement. One is losing to guys who are not top-level competition. The other is if I started losing where it’s like, ‘OK man, you were knocked out viciously and staring at the rafters.’ I won’t endanger my health.

You are going to get knocked down, but you don’t lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

Everybody wants to see somebody get knocked out. I’m sorry but it’s the fight game and that’s what they want to see.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn’t affect our democracy and I wasn’t knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

It’s never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.

One night, I knocked out Mr. T, kicked Cyndi Lauper, chased Dick Clark back to his locker room, and slapped Little Richard.

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.

No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.

When you’re young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don’t just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.

I always wanted to see my parents without any stress and accordingly knocked every audition for an opportunity.

Robert Whittaker hasn’t been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson.

I’ve been put down, pushed aside, knocked out.

Getting knocked out in your underwear in the Octagon is pretty embarrassing, but people are like, ‘The guy he’s fighting is really, really good, and he is a UFC fighter, so he can still beat up 99 percent of the world,’ so it’s not that embarrassing.

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It’s pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.

If someone pushes me, they’re getting knocked out. They’re going to get in a fight.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone’s socks off.

Antidepressants are very good, but it’s a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you’re in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

I knew Avila was going to be a tough, strong opponent. I cracked him a few times early, but he kept bouncing back every time. When I knocked him down, I could tell he wasn’t hurt and was impressed by his toughness. He brought out the best in me.