Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was ‘life and death’ sparring – it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
I had basically been shelved by the record label for two years and I was writing songs every day. I made two albums that just never came out, and that was just a really big knock to my confidence, because everything I sent seemed like it just wasn’t good enough.
Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
Don’t put yourself on a pedestal. Because it’s very easy for someone to knock you off.
My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.
I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn’t like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don’t knock me down as much as they used to.
As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
It always ended up that they said, ‘Tony, are Frosted Flakes good?’ And he would laugh and say, ‘Good? Why, they’re great.’ And I said, ‘Well, we’ve gotta do something with the word ‘great’ to make It explode. It has to really knock the packages off the shelves.’
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it’s a – knock wood – hit, the checks come in for many years.
I know I can knock Robbie Lawler out.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it’s the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer’s block. Knock on wood.
I think one of the big things with Jonathan and me is that, you know, we love to compete, but it’s not a matter of competition to knock each other down. It’s a matter of pushing each other to do better. And we’ve always been like that our whole life.
You can put 10 Dominick Cruz’s in front of me, I’ll knock them all out. 10 out of 10.
I played defense in high school, so when the ball’s in the air I feel like it’s mine. No matter who it is or the situation, I feel like I’ve got to come down with the ball or at least knock it away.
I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That’s no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things.
If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.
I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He’s a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.
I think if you do a lot of interviews, you’re laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can’t really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.
When you knock people out, it’s sometimes a very scary situation – but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it’s funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, ‘I wouldn’t fight that guy.’
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won’t have much emotion to spare anyway.
Hey, don’t knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.
I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on ‘City Is Mine.’ I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on ‘Can I Get A…,’ and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with ‘Hard Knock Life.’
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don’t knock Phoenix – it’s not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.
I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
Sure, best seller. I’d love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won’t, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.
When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We’ll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they’ll have these stacks there for you. They’ll say: ‘Harper, you’ve knocked on 50 doors. That’s great. Here’s how you compare to the rest of them.’ But it’s all very offline.
People don’t understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there’s a man there saying, ‘Let’s talk about your funeral.’ At the time I thought, God, that’s a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a ’60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they’ve ever been to.
The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.
I’ve been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight.
Whenever I wasn’t in school with a tutor three hours a day, I’d get a knock and be rushed to set and they’d be waiting and I’d film my thing and then I’d go back to school again.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
When I told people my plan was to knock everyone out in the amateurs and become world champion as quickly as I could as a professional, a lot of people said it was impossible.
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.
I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with ‘Boy, he can really put a clause together!’
Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you’ve missed about his brilliance.
Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It’just wonderful.
When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.
When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then – knock on wood – you see a lot of injury risk go down.
Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn’t necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.
People would downplay how good I was, or my athleticism would be the knock, and that added fuel to the fire.
The more I knock on doors, the more I hear from people that they’re angry. We need to deliver change in Ontario, and I’m running because I’m the only person who can defeat Kathleen Wynne.
I didn’t knock on any producers’ doors for work.
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They’re lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we’re in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don’t even appreciate the good situations. We’re lazy. Or we’re scared. Or we just don’t notice.
I definitely don’t look at myself as a 3-point shooter, but when we’re playing three big guys, I find myself on the perimeter a lot, and they leave me alone. I’ve got to knock it down or do something with it.
I was a striker before a wrestler. I’ve always wanted to knock people out.
Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I’d walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend’s door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.
Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.
