Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
I'm still here. I knocked off another competitor.
That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out
It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.
Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
Get back up when you're knocked down.
So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up. '
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.
When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.
I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.