Knocked Quotes

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

We were knocked down but not knocked out.

Sydney knocked us out last year and most of the boys have got a point to prove.

It was a funny race. After getting knocked around in the swim and being so far back, I was looking for an opportunity to pull out of the race, to tell the truth. It is such a tough course and a hot day. I just hung in there and gradually they came back to me on the run.

He (Morris) is a junior but he's gutsy. He's got three older brothers and I'm sure they knocked him around when he was kid. So he'll go out there and gut it out for us.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

I'm hoping we get another shot at them in the conference tournament. We gave it our all, they just knocked down shots.

It kind of gave us a cushion. And it knocked them back on their heels after they had built up some momentum in the second half.

It just can't be that we condemn German football like this - that is crazy. Real Madrid and Chelsea got knocked out, too.

Chemo is chemo, but it wasn't the kind that just knocked you on your butt.

I bet if I knocked on one door with bullet holes, I knocked on a hundred.

It nearly cost me my title, ... I was exhausted from throwing the punches that (should have) knocked him out. I gave my best effort to knock him out and I did that. Then, when the fight should be over, I've got to find the effort to do that all over again after he gets 70, 80 seconds rest! That wasn't right and I was very concerned for my title at that point.

Here the (Soviet) bear got his teeth knocked out. He could no longer bite other nations trying to break away to freedom.

They knocked on the door and asked for him by name. So they were let in and they talked about the Super Bowl. Next thing you know, there were three shots and the people ran out.

I think he can come back. It was (only) his first time (an opponent) knocked him out.

They got knocked into the toilet. My dog ate my homework. Oh, and it ate my pain medication. ... They got stolen.

The cricket hasn't knocked horseracing off the top as leading sport in terms of total betting turnover, but on days when the cricket has been on everything else has taken a back seat. There's been an enormous amount of interest during any given Test. There's massive trading of positions all day. People have their computers on next to their televisions. They bet literally hundreds of times in the course of a match.

I was trying to get up slowly so I wouldn't get knocked in the head, ... and I got up and ran.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

If you're a betting taxpayer, over the next 30 years, would you rebuild the cities that were knocked down, in the same way? I would argue, maybe not.