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Ever since Jonas has taken over as head coach, we haven’t really had any out-of-bounds plays, i tried to call — look at the bench and call a simple one everybody knows, and Colby looked at me and said he was going to throw me the ball, and I was fortunate enough to knock down the shot. – Jack Nunge	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's nice to finally knock down some open looks. – Mick Cronin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They got a couple of key offensive rebounds at the end there where we played really good, solid defense, then we'd let them get another shot up, and it would either turn into a foul and some free throws or they'd knock down a shot, so I think that's really what it came down to for us. – Van Lith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every opportunity you need in life is behind a door. How many doors are you willing to knock down? – Sanita Belgrave	added by sanita_b 2 years ago
We’re not where we want to be, the more we can play with pace, guys will get easier looks. We’ll knock down some shots. – Jayson Tatum	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They were not whipping anyone, they don't carry whips. They don't get assigned whips. What they do is a training technique that has been shown to them to make sure that no one takes over their horse. It was to protect the horse, to protect the rider, and to protect the individual that was trying to cause chaos and knock down that rider from that horse. – Del Cueto	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What they do is a training technique that has been shown to them to make sure that no one takes over their horse, it was to protect the horse, to protect the rider and to protect the individual that was trying to cause chaos and knock down that rider from that horse. – Del Cueto	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Apple Daily in Hong Kong is a symbol of independent journalism, and the Chinese government's motivation is to knock down that symbol. It is very sad for me to see what's happening, taiwan is already a democracy. – Joseph Wu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Have pride, keep your man in front of you, don’t allow them to have easy looks, don’t allow them to get easily to the free throw line. Rebound the ball. Make sure when we miss or make shots, you got to box (out). The little things add up in 48 minutes and then you’ll have the result of being good on defense. But if you let the guy shoot an open 3 then let somebody go backdoor, let somebody get offensive rebound then throw it to the 3-point guy so he can knock down the 3, all that builds up and you have a bad night. – Giannis Antetokounmpo	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's no shame in just doing the small things every day to just get you through those moments... you don't have to feel like you're setting yourself up to knock down the biggest thing you could possibly imagine, for me it's been little things. Instead of trying to write a whole song, just try and think about one line. I haven't done a lot of cooking, maybe I can learn to make pasta today and see if I can look up how to boil water and do that. And all those little baby steps lead to realizing that you're accomplishing quite a bit. – Josh Groban	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The knock down was a big factor. – Manny Pacquiao	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Gwyneth Paltrow was skiing out of control, what Ms. Paltrow did that day was knock down Terry Sanderson, pick herself up, dust herself off and ski off without rendering any help. – Robert Sykes	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Vladimir Putin is out there talking about his nuclear missiles and we should just say, first of all, nobody has ever said American missile defenses could knock down thousands of Russian missiles—I told him that myself, personally, when I was secretary of state, that missile defense is aimed at Iran or North Korea—not Russia. – Condoleezza Rice	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We thought that if we could just knock down one really big client, we could pay for the whole workforce, and anything we made past that would be extra profit. – Jere Simpson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Beijing will express total outrage at the [UN tribunal] ruling, refusing to acknowledge its validity. Vietnam and others will politely applaud a favorable Manila ruling, as it’ll knock down Beijing a peg or two and thus, at least rhetorically, strengthen their own posture versus Beijing. – Sean King Park Strategies	added by InitiatedCall 7 years ago
Remodeling after a breakup depends on the individual and the breakup, if it is going to help you be happy and move on then absolutely it’s a necessity. At one New York City interior design firm they even have a term( used internally) for such projects : break-up decoration therapy. Sean Juneja, CEO of Dcor Aid, says Dcor Aid’s important to start in the bedroom, the most intimate space you shared. Even if you ca n’t afford to knock down any walls, paint them. – Emily Lyons	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It will take all of us working together to knock down these barriers to stand for the basic proposition that yes we are all created equal. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Down in Central and South America, they’re using these thermal foggers— that can work and knock down the mosquito, but in the U.S, they’re not going to allow federal and state folks to allow them into their homes to do that, it’s not something that mosquito abatement will do, but public pressure may make them do that. People might demand something like that of their own volition. – Joe Conlon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm a Muslim-American and I'm tired of the rampant Islamophobia overtaking the campaign, and until Muslim Mel Brooks appears on the scene to comically knock down Trump with our version of 'The Producers,' this is the next best thing. – Mo Fathelbab	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When nights like tonight happen, you find shots and they keep going in, i was just trying to be aggressive, was able to get in the paint a good amount, knock down some threes and keep them honest, and kind of open the game up. – Stephen Curry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Ever since Jonas has taken over as head coach, we haven’t really had any out-of-bounds plays, i tried to call — look at the bench and call a simple one everybody knows, and Colby looked at me and said he was going to throw me the ball, and I was fortunate enough to knock down the shot.

– Jack Nunge

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's nice to finally knock down some open looks.

– Mick Cronin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They got a couple of key offensive rebounds at the end there where we played really good, solid defense, then we'd let them get another shot up, and it would either turn into a foul and some free throws or they'd knock down a shot, so I think that's really what it came down to for us.

– Van Lith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every opportunity you need in life is behind a door. How many doors are you willing to knock down?

– Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

We’re not where we want to be, the more we can play with pace, guys will get easier looks. We’ll knock down some shots.

– Jayson Tatum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were not whipping anyone, they don't carry whips. They don't get assigned whips. What they do is a training technique that has been shown to them to make sure that no one takes over their horse. It was to protect the horse, to protect the rider, and to protect the individual that was trying to cause chaos and knock down that rider from that horse.

– Del Cueto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What they do is a training technique that has been shown to them to make sure that no one takes over their horse, it was to protect the horse, to protect the rider and to protect the individual that was trying to cause chaos and knock down that rider from that horse.

– Del Cueto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Apple Daily in Hong Kong is a symbol of independent journalism, and the Chinese government's motivation is to knock down that symbol. It is very sad for me to see what's happening, taiwan is already a democracy.

– Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Have pride, keep your man in front of you, don’t allow them to have easy looks, don’t allow them to get easily to the free throw line. Rebound the ball. Make sure when we miss or make shots, you got to box (out). The little things add up in 48 minutes and then you’ll have the result of being good on defense. But if you let the guy shoot an open 3 then let somebody go backdoor, let somebody get offensive rebound then throw it to the 3-point guy so he can knock down the 3, all that builds up and you have a bad night.

– Giannis Antetokounmpo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There's no shame in just doing the small things every day to just get you through those moments... you don't have to feel like you're setting yourself up to knock down the biggest thing you could possibly imagine, for me it's been little things. Instead of trying to write a whole song, just try and think about one line. I haven't done a lot of cooking, maybe I can learn to make pasta today and see if I can look up how to boil water and do that. And all those little baby steps lead to realizing that you're accomplishing quite a bit.

– Josh Groban

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The knock down was a big factor.

– Manny Pacquiao

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Gwyneth Paltrow was skiing out of control, what Ms. Paltrow did that day was knock down Terry Sanderson, pick herself up, dust herself off and ski off without rendering any help.

– Robert Sykes

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Vladimir Putin is out there talking about his nuclear missiles and we should just say, first of all, nobody has ever said American missile defenses could knock down thousands of Russian missiles—I told him that myself, personally, when I was secretary of state, that missile defense is aimed at Iran or North Korea—not Russia.

– Condoleezza Rice

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We thought that if we could just knock down one really big client, we could pay for the whole workforce, and anything we made past that would be extra profit.

– Jere Simpson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Beijing will express total outrage at the [UN tribunal] ruling, refusing to acknowledge its validity. Vietnam and others will politely applaud a favorable Manila ruling, as it’ll knock down Beijing a peg or two and thus, at least rhetorically, strengthen their own posture versus Beijing.

– Sean King Park Strategies

added by InitiatedCall
7 years ago

Remodeling after a breakup depends on the individual and the breakup, if it is going to help you be happy and move on then absolutely it’s a necessity. At one New York City interior design firm they even have a term( used internally) for such projects : break-up decoration therapy. Sean Juneja, CEO of Dcor Aid, says Dcor Aid’s important to start in the bedroom, the most intimate space you shared. Even if you ca n’t afford to knock down any walls, paint them.

– Emily Lyons

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It will take all of us working together to knock down these barriers to stand for the basic proposition that yes we are all created equal.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Down in Central and South America, they’re using these thermal foggers— that can work and knock down the mosquito, but in the U.S, they’re not going to allow federal and state folks to allow them into their homes to do that, it’s not something that mosquito abatement will do, but public pressure may make them do that. People might demand something like that of their own volition.

– Joe Conlon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm a Muslim-American and I'm tired of the rampant Islamophobia overtaking the campaign, and until Muslim Mel Brooks appears on the scene to comically knock down Trump with our version of 'The Producers,' this is the next best thing.

– Mo Fathelbab

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When nights like tonight happen, you find shots and they keep going in, i was just trying to be aggressive, was able to get in the paint a good amount, knock down some threes and keep them honest, and kind of open the game up.

– Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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