I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.
AB de Villiers
You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
Amy Chua
I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.
Annaleigh Ashford
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.
Ashley McBryde
If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
Bill Nunn
The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
Bob Paisley
I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out.
Bob Seger
There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.
Charles M. Schwab
Email knocks me off my game. It's just for the morning commute and end of the day. Some might think I'm slow to respond, but those who need to reach me know to send me a text during those hours.
Chieh Huang
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Chinua Achebe
As an amateur, I trained in some real hard schools of knocks. In Cuba, they would have judges on three sides of the ring just for sparring sessions. They train under exactly the same conditions as they fight, and it was a great experience.
Chris Eubank Jr.
Entertainment is changing so much because of the devices we have at our hands. I'm really proud to be on the forefront of that. You don't have to work one place. It's our generation. As much as we get knocks against us, we don't accept non-quality work in our entertainment. We're no longer force-fed. Wrestling is going through that.
Cody Rhodes
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
Conway Twitty
If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
D. B. Weiss
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence
When a Mormon knocks, they say, 'Can I teach you about Jesus Christ?' And if you say no, they'll say, 'Then how can I be of service to you?' So anybody who was smart would be like, 'You can take out my trash and mow my lawn.'
Dan Reynolds
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne
I went to the school of hard knocks.
Debbie Reynolds
When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.
Debra Stephenson
I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'
I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.
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 think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.
On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.
I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
I'm slightly concerned, because as a centre-half who took a lot of knocks to the head I'm not normally synonymous with being a fashion icon.
With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.
I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.
Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
It knocks me for a six when someone online asks me on a date.
No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.
Opportunity only knocks so many times.
It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.
Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI... are just professionals. I don't want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He's an FBI agent.
