Knockouts Quotes

• Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Artist, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 18, 2015

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• The best feeling is to win by knockout.

  Nonito Donaire

  Winning, Feelings

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• There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Setups

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Every shot should be a knockout shot.

  Jermichael Finley

  Entrepreneur, Should, Shots

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• I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Focus, Fine, Okay

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• When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Getting Back Up

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• The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

  Julio Cortazar

  Winning, Stories, Novel

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• Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.

  Bert Sugar

  Blow

  Bert Sugar (2014). “Bert Sugar's Punchlines: The Best of Boxing's Most Colorful Writer”, p.120, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Victory, Outcomes, Performances

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The knockouts did not change me as a fighter. I was more of a boxer as a heavyweight. The problem was when I came back to light heavyweight, I lost all of the muscle and I lost all of the energy. I was going for the knockout because I didn't want to go the whole 12 rounds because my body was tired. I couldn't understand why my body was tired and it didn't dawn on me until now.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Tired, Light

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• There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

  William H. Macy

  Real, Roles, Should

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• In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.

  Todd Burpo

  Blow, Boxing, Fighter

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Age, Use

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• I'm just going to punch him and do my best. If the knockout comes, it comes.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Ifs

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• This place has a one, two knockout punch.

  Joe Teti

  Two, Survival

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• You can still entertain without getting a knockout.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighter, Stills

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• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  Mike Tyson

  Blessed, Thinking, Target

  Inerview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Mexican, Titles

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• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

  Jack Dempsey

  Motivational, Sports, Food

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• In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Finals, May, Firsts

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• You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.

  Gordon Korman

  Girl, Couple, Flower

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If I knock him out, it will just put another feather in my cap. I'm predicting a win, but I never look for the knockout because that's not my game plan. If my punches result in a knockout, so be it.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Fighting, Winning, Games

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• People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  People, Gloves, Crowds

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

  Julian Bream

  Music, Hearing, Revelations

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