Hard Knocks Quotes

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

Everything can't be sweet. Everything can't be peaches and cream.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

We learn by misfortune.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything after the game. You definitely get harder knocks, but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back.

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.