Top 35 Knuckle Quotes

I was at a party in Alexandra Palace tobogganing on the ski slope, got whiplashed at 40mph, put my hands out to balance myself, and three fingers got caught in the artificial snow. I broke four knuckles. I have not drummed since.

As a kid, I wasn’t listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Whatever knuckle ball I have bowled, I wanted batsmen to go after that. That way, you can get wickets, and that’s one of the main reasons why I have been successful in power plays.

I love rings, but I can’t wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I just couldn’t turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

I’m always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

To have an effective striking match, you need gloves on. Junior dos Santos would have a very short career if he was in a bare knuckle fight. The early UFCs, before gloves, were grappling with some striking.

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

I have the words ‘love’ and ‘life’ on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

I’m nervous about moving away from my family. That’s one thing that I’m really scared of, but I feel like it’ll be good for me to live on my own for a bit and really knuckle down on what I really love and study.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you that money was a big factor in signing for Bare Knuckle – we’re prize fighters, and our success is measured by the size of our purse.

It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it’s nothing.

My old life was really hard. I had to get up at 4:30 A.M. in the morning to pay the bills. You know that if you don’t turn up you don’t get paid. It has really helped me knuckle down as a dart player and treat it like a job.

I used to fight every week. Me and my friends used to fight each other, bare knuckle, but then we would be friends that same day. That was our entertainment, though.

I always wear at least five rings on my fingers – I have these knuckle rings I really like.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you’d have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn’t drop out and run away.

Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not ‘either/or’ options – indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

I remembered watching the first UFC. You couldn’t get it on TV. They were doing it bare knuckles. No gloves. I wanted to do that.

People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.

I’m terrible with decisions. And I can’t make myself do something I don’t like. I can’t knuckle under.

If I put my pinkie to my thumb, I can cover my wrist all the way to the knuckle. When I get a watch, I always have to go and get extra holes put in or get a special bracelet that’s adjustable.

I don’t have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want – The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I’ll make mistakes, I’m bound to, but I’ll write them down and I’ll learn from them.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You’re not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you’re interested in understanding them.

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don’t stick them out anymore.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I’m not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I’d had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

I’m missing a knuckle, it’s crushed inside my hand at the moment.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.