Top 280 Knock Quotes

It’s unusual for me to be in front of an audience without somebody trying to knock my teeth out.

I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I’m quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven’t done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

If an opportunity comes to knock out my opponent, I’m going to take it.

When I knock people out, they’re not getting up.

People shouldn’t knock the synthesizer. It’s an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra’s door – and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

We need to let the referee’s sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says ‘knockdowns.’ Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it’s legal, we’ll make excuses for them.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

I’m learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.

Basically I try not to knock other comedians.

If I’m the promoter and I’ve got a fighter named ‘Rampage’ who likes to slam people and knock them out, the last thing I would do is put him in a fight with someone who’s good at holding people down.

I put a lot of work in. I watch film. I study. People may knock it, but I think it’s what makes me great.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

A tourist will just walk up to a Natchezian on the street and ask, ‘Where does Greg Iles live?’ And they’ll say, ‘Oh, right over there; just go knock on the door.’ I’ve had people just walk into my office, walk into my house like it’s a museum just open to the public.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

I’ve had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I’d love to knock a few of them out.

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

I just tried to go out there and play with attitude, doing what I was supposed to do and knowing my role on the team. Doing what my team expected me to do every night, not just once a week. It was all about work and I was just a tough guy who would knock somebody down.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I’m not just a guy who can knock people out.

Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it’s a privilege, so you definitely don’t knock it because you never know where you may end up.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It’s not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock ’em out the first chance I get.

I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o’clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

In the computer industry, you’ve got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Because actually it’s really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you’ve produced Harry Potter, you’d better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

I love Scott Coker and I love Bellator and I love what we have built together and it’s a little uneasy to think that I will no longer be under contract with Bellator after I knock out Benson Henderson and get my hand raised.

I’ve had fans come and knock on my door. I’m usually polite, but I’m usually very direct and say, ‘It’s not cool that you come here uninvited.’

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.

If I hit Khan, he’s going down. If the punch is in the right place, he won’t get up. I can knock him out with one right hand.

I’m sure there is an infinite number of men who Ann Wolfe can knock out. I’m one of them.

I’m the farthest thing from a hater if any of the former guys do the post UFC commentary shows. I would never knock anybody for doing them.

I don’t like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that’s always the game plan.

Brock Lesnar’s stand-up sucks. He doesn’t have a chin. Brock has got to take him to the ground, because Mark Hunt will knock him back to pro wrestling if he hits him.

I just calorie count and knock the booze on the head and then watch the scales to see the weight come off. Now I’ve been very healthy.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn’t work like that.

Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you’re a band like Coldplay, people are waiting to knock you down.

I think it’s helped me that I’ve always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I’ve known from school, and when I’m away from football, they’re the ones who I knock about with.

On the feet, I realized that it will be hard for anyone to knock me out, I have a solid chin and everything will be alright.

A word is an arbitrary label – that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock?

With food, you’re the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.

It was an impossible ask to go out to Russia and knock out Kovalev. I felt that was the only way I’d win, but I made a good account of myself and we keep moving onwards and upwards.

I’m gonna knock people out.

I’ve never felt like I needed to change. I’ve always thought, ‘If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.’ But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

I treat myself more as an athlete instead of as a fighter. As a fighter, you’re going out there as a street thug, relying on your hands, trying to knock someone out, being overly aggressive.

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J ‘Mama Said Knock You Out.’

I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It’s about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender.

Dominick Cruz can’t knock anybody out. He’s got grapes for hands.