Best Knocked Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You get ahead of yourself and you get too much confidence, and sometimes you get knocked down.”

“I don't really see myself getting knocked out by Volkanovski so I think in terms of fight IQ and how intelligent he fights, Volkanovski is the best fighter that I've ever experienced.”

“Just because I've been knocked out once before doesn't mean I'm not a great striker.”

“I've knocked around with Graeme McDowell for years and you learn from people.”

“Sometimes I knocked people out then said: 'Was it the left or the right?' I didn't know! I just had the power.”

“I would like to fight Wilder because he's a great name, he's knocked out nearly all his opponents. I personally just want to fight Wilder.”

“There are two ways I would consider retirement. One is losing to guys who are not top-level competition. The other is if I started losing where it's like, 'OK man, you were knocked out viciously and staring at the rafters.' I won't endanger my health.”

“Mare of Easttown' knocked my socks off.”

“I was most scared of Jose Aldo because I was really scared of getting knocked out by Jose Aldo. So in that sense, Jose Aldo is the top rank. Volkanovski, on the other hand, is a very smart fighter.”

“Sometimes, you go out there and get knocked out in the first seven seconds. That might be one out of 10 times, but that is why we fight.”

“In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit.”

“It's never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.”

“I beat Luke Rockhold, he's a great fighter. I knocked him out.”

“Victory means I knocked someone out, that I got paid, and that I'll be able to get it to my kids.”

“When you have a fighter who's been punched a lot and been knocked out a lot of times, they're not going to be able to recover. They're going to look like they were knocked out.”

“I've known guys who've got knocked out and they get back in there too soon, next thing you know they get clipped and they're out again.”

“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.”

“If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.”

“I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.”

“There were a lot of fighters who were better than me that got knocked out and stopped because they stayed in the game too long. That never happened to me. I don't know that feeling. I thank God so much that that didn't happen to me.”

“That's what a true professional is - a true world champion, so to everybody out there listening, especially the fighters that want to fight me... they'll get knocked out, sparko.”

“I'm human, and we all make mistakes. But just because you're knocked down, you don't have to stay down. Get up and fight.”

“You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.”

“I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.”

“People can look at my style and my faults, point out all the things I didn't do as well as other fighters but I was never knocked out or stopped.”

“I remember one time I got one of my front teeth knocked out, and so I got a partial where they have the deal where they have the thing that slips in and slips out.”

“Getting choked out feels a lot better than getting knocked out.”

“Everybody wants to see somebody get knocked out. I'm sorry but it's the fight game and that's what they want to see.”

“When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.”

“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.”

“No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.”

“I'm not always the guy getting knocked down a whole lot. My body probably hasn't been punished as much as the other guys have been. I think it's because I show up every day, and I try to do my best - give everything I have.”

“Truly, I am not afraid of one man in this whole UFC Octagon roster. I truly don't care. What's the worst thing that's going to happen to me? I lose. I get knocked out?”

“What's the worst that can happen? I get knocked out. At least I tried.”

“However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.”

“You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.”

“I've been knocked out and come back.”

“Anybody at any time can get knocked out in this sport.”

“After getting my head knocked off so many times, I've perfected this.”

“I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.”

“I've knocked guys out in the 11th round before, late.”

“I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.”

“I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.”

“I've had more than 80 pro fights and I've never been knocked out.”

“You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.”

“I feel like I'm a skittle. If I'm knocked down, I'll get up and try again.”

“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.”

“Amir Khan is a very good fighter, but he has been knocked out a few times when he has stepped up.”

“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.”

“I've had my altercations with Sean Strickland, and then seeing him get knocked out, I'll get tagged in stuff and videos of him getting knocked out, and I'm never going to share in that.”

“You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.”

“I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.”

“I'm always a guy I'm never sharing in somebody getting knocked out.”

“I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.”

“I think if you are passionate about what you want to be or where you want to go and you work very hard to that goal, it will happen. And, yes, you'll be knocked down and you'll have some tough times. And it won't be easy all the time, but the rewards are pretty amazing, especially if you stay true to yourself.”

“Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.”

“When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.”

“People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.”

“Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.”

“What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.”

“I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.”

“Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.”

“They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.”

“You never know when you're going to get parole. You might get knocked back, they might give you parole. That's like me trying to get into America. Are we going to let him in?”

“I think people relate to the person who gets knocked down or maybe has to come from behind and get that victory.”

“In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.”

“There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.”

“As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.”

“If someone pushes me, they're getting knocked out. They're going to get in a fight.”

“The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.”

“The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.”

“You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.”

“You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.”

“My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.”

“I've knocked out a lot of people so I'm not going to cry about being stopped, it's part of the game and I can accept that.”

“When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.”

“I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.”

“I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.”

“I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.”

“I think it was in sixth grade, though, when I picked up my first Stephen King book, which was 'It,' that knocked me over and terrified me for years. Then I never went back. I had to own every Stephen King book and read them at least three times. They would terrify me completely, but I couldn't stop. That became my preferred source of fiction.”

“Paul knew I could sing, write and play, and so he rang me. It knocked me sideways a little because I wasn't used to being a sidekick. That was the first time I'd been with a band with someone more famous than me.”

“They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.”

“I've been knocked down a lot of times.”

“Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.”

“I've been knocked out and I've lost, but I've won a lot more.”

“I understand people want to see me get knocked out.”

“Any time I've been knocked down, I've come back even better. I think everyone knows that about me.”

“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.”

“I've knocked my front teeth out. I've got fake front teeth.”