I remember the European Championships in 2004. Wayne Rooney was a special player in that tournament, and I definitely cried when we got knocked out then.
I had worked so hard on three projects 1997 that it knocked the gas out of me. It was a mystery to the medical profession, but you can test positive for Epstein-Barr and not have it. When you get a post-viral syndrome, for some people it causes chronic fatigue or hearing loss. For me it became light sensitivity.
‘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.
In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.
My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I’ve been to death.
I had two managers who couldn’t stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn’t get any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn’t fight for 13 months. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the world.
While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself… and while I’m not a science fiction buff, I consider ‘2001’ a great film, absolutely enthralling; at ‘Star Wars’ I had a fabulous time, and, at ‘Alien,’ while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.
When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.
I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of ‘La Bete,’ and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.
Having your hands up doesn’t stop you from getting knocked out and there are a lot of advantages to having your hands down. It’s also more exciting because it looks very impressive from the fans’ perspective, which is a big factor in the entertainment business.
I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.
Everyone in the UFC is good. If you’re at the lowest end or the highest end, you have a chance to get knocked out and put to sleep.
I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.
I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He’s beyond hysterical. He’s good people. They’re really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
You’re a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I’ve been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.
I think Adrien Broner was at his best. If he wasn’t, I would have knocked him out. He was very motivated, he changed camps and made weight with no issues.
I’ve been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I’m not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.
I’ve played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals – sometimes unluckily knocked out – but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That’s been instilled in me since I was a kid.
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it’s one that I have.
I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn’t a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.
If you’ve had the No. 1 job, why would you go back and be reserve manager? Is Alex Ferguson going to be reserve manager for Manchester United? It’s like a boxer going into the ring with one arm behind his back. Why would you do it? You’re going to get knocked out.
I don’t think many people would think I’m a designer. I behave in a different way. I’d get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I’ve got my feet on the ground.
My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there’s this calmness about you that says everything is OK.
David Tua was an elite and world class heavyweight, I believe David Tua would have knocked Joseph Parker out in a handful of rounds.
People say, ‘Oh, so you should retire.’ Yeah, you want me to retire so you won’t get knocked out. I won’t retire.
Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.
When I was eight my mum said, ‘You must integrate otherwise you won’t fit it in. You must talk like de Dudley people dem.’ Suddenly this thing of having a Jamaican attitude got knocked out of us.
My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on – so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It’s weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.
The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn’t be played with. I should have just knocked him out, not let him dance around and look good.
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
I haven’t knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.
Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it’s not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
If I wasn’t in show business I don’t know what I would have been – a wanderer or something, you know? But God blessed me with the talent and the chance. I knocked on enough doors, and this is what I can give myself credit for.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
I didn’t stick with my game plan, I didn’t take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.
Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I’m the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.
You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.
When I’m not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.
I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
I’ve seen so many fighters getting knocked out.
I feel like I’m a fighter. I’ve fought my whole life to get to where I’m at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.
Travis Browne don’t know what’s he thinking. Travis, he’s out there, man. That guy has been knocked out so many times, he’s been rocked so many times, he don’t know what to say.
I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend – thinking we would just spar around – but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.
If you have knocked over a batsman once – fine, it happens. Twice, OK. But more than that in the space of a few Tests then there is definitely something to work with.
Yankee Stadium played host to the most important prizefight ever when Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in 1938.
I’ve knocked people out from the clinch. I’ve submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I’ve knocked people out with one-hand punch.
Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn’t been finished since for six years, the guy doesn’t get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.
