My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long – the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.
If I was very high-strung, I probably would’ve knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I’ll never show.
When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there’s Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I’m still in flight.
If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
Victory means I knocked someone out, that I got paid, and that I’ll be able to get it to my kids.
One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It’s so important to get back up again.
You never know when you’re going to get parole. You might get knocked back, they might give you parole. That’s like me trying to get into America. Are we going to let him in?
The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.
I’m the guy who gets uncomfortable. That’s why I was able to write ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ and ‘Knocked Up.’ I believe in those guys.
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over, that it was just a fad. But we didn’t anticipate being knocked out of the pocket altogether.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
The UFC is a very serious business, it’s not the WWE. Guys break their arms and get knocked out in there.
Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
I’ve knocked my front teeth out. I’ve got fake front teeth.
Paul knew I could sing, write and play, and so he rang me. It knocked me sideways a little because I wasn’t used to being a sidekick. That was the first time I’d been with a band with someone more famous than me.
That was the best part of the Pride guys – they’d go out and entertain. They’d either get knocked out or knock somebody out; they were always trying to finish the fight.
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
I’ve knocked out a lot of my opponents.
I would like to fight Wilder because he’s a great name, he’s knocked out nearly all his opponents. I personally just want to fight Wilder.
I’ve always been somewhere down from the top, so I’ve never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
I’ve never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.
When I got knocked down, I got back up.
I had to host a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the park. But that was before the Internet really took off, so the only people that know are the people who were there.
Georges St. Pierre has the best takedowns and dominant wrestling ability, and he’s a great athlete, but he’s shown he can be knocked out. I think B.J. Penn is the better fighter. He’s the great martial artist.
I’ve always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
In my room as a kid… I’d play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
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.
I’ve been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
I didn’t need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.
There were, of course, ups and downs. But whenever my parents were knocked down, in business or anything else, they picked themselves up and started again.
Anyone who has ever compared one woman against another on Twitter, knocked someone because of their appearance, invaded someone else’s privacy, who have made mean, unnecessary comments on an online forum – they need to look at themselves.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.
It was never a conscious decision – I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it’s no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I’ve called myself this. It’s just what I’m known as, you know.
I’m human, and we all make mistakes. But just because you’re knocked down, you don’t have to stay down. Get up and fight.
I was an undersized, undertalented defensive back. I knocked myself out multiple times running into people. I ended my career without an anterior cruciate ligament. I still don’t have one. At a certain point, you realize: I’ve used up all I’ve got.
Werdum’s open to being knocked out in any fight because he’s so reckless, but that’s also what makes him so damn dynamic.
The only time I’ve ever been knocked out in my entire life was in a rugby game when I was about 13. I used to play on the wing. The opposing winger has the ball in his hand and he’s running full speed at me. I go down to tackle him and he jumps up and his knee hits my temple.
He doesn’t like to be hit. Not that anybody likes to be hit, but Brock for whatever reason has shown much more of a dramatic response to the negativity of those shots. To the point where he’s not asleep, it isn’t like he got knocked out, he’s not getting dropped, but he just turns his face away from adversity.
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
There were a lot of fighters who were better than me that got knocked out and stopped because they stayed in the game too long. That never happened to me. I don’t know that feeling. I thank God so much that that didn’t happen to me.
Reality show? You can’t find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I’d say he’s a weak sister. I thought he’d been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
I am the world’s most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I’ve studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t’ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.
You know when I fight, I’m going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.
I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, ‘Oh, you think you’re going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?’ And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.
I’m not always the guy getting knocked down a whole lot. My body probably hasn’t been punished as much as the other guys have been. I think it’s because I show up every day, and I try to do my best – give everything I have.
There’s nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.
I always say ‘Knocked Up’ opened the doors, and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open. To this day, it’s still surreal. And my wife’s a doctor. All our friends are doctors – our close friends. And it’s just that I have an odd job now. I think I’m like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
