#knocked

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#does #get #knocked #mean #out

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' ↗

— John Sayles

#door #had #here #i #i remember

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' ↗

— Joe Biden

#champ #dad #down #gets #how

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. ↗

— Adrienne Gusoff

#knocked #opportunity #out #threw

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down. ↗

— Faith Hill

#defended #doors #down #i #knocked

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#difficult #guy #honest #i #i think

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything. ↗

— Gary Locke

#consider #down #everything #guy #home

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

— Vince Lombardi

#get #knocked #up #whether #you

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

— Vince Lombardi

#being #coming #essence #glory #knees