Hasselfhoff refers to self as 'a big punching bag'

David Hasselhoff's superstar status as a singer in Europe hasn't carried over to America, but he says "if it happens, it happens."

"I'm a big punching bag," he told the Television Critics Association's summer meeting in Pasadena, Calif. "I just kind of go with the flow. I never really desperately tried to break this market."

The 54-year-old actor is best known in the States for his TV hits "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider." He currently co-stars with Adam Sandler in the movie "Click" and is a judge on the NBC reality series "America's Got Talent."