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

I've been knocked down a lot of times.
James Brown

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
Floyd Patterson

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.
Jim Lampley

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre de Coubertin

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
Don Drysdale

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.
Thomas J. Watson

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

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
Alex O'Loughlin

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

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

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.
Don Drysdale

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
Adrienne Gusoff

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
Frank Robinson

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
Pierce Brosnan

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
Orrin Hatch

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

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.
Gregory Corso

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