Quotes About Adversity

If you get knocked down - setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don't hire you - keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.

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.

To be honest with you, getting knocked out isn't that bad. It's not what everybody makes it out to be.

I understand people want to see me get knocked out.

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.

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

When I get knocked down, I'm going to get up and knock you down - and I'm going to hurt you.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

I not only went back to the 'All Stars' gig for myself but also for my fans. I wanted them to see the story of even if you get knocked down, you get back up, you keep going and you can win.

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

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

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that's when you know it's been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don't look like you've done any rounds, that's when you know it's quite good.

I've been knocked out and come back.

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.

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you're 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

Nobody can take too many big hits, not even comparing someone 5-foot-8 'cause some of the 6-foot-3 guys still get knocked out, too.

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

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

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

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.