Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I'm being called 'Messi with gloves?' I think he's had a great level over many years. You shouldn't compare yourself with that.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

I'm really happy to be working with CES Boxing, Gary Shaw Productions and Eye of the Tiger Management. It shows the direction in which Golden Boy Promotions is heading - in terms of bringing the best fights to the fans. It shows that Golden Boy Promotions is willing to work with anybody in order to satisfy the boxing fans.

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

McGregor has a good punch, but he cannot say that he's the biggest puncher. MMA gloves are tiny - four ounces - so when they connect, they drop you.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint-or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove-gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift-for a year spent without any gloves at all.

My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn't have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

I've had the dream of being a world champion since I put on my first pair of gloves.

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

And when I hang up my boots and gloves at the end, I want to tell myself I gave everything to the sport.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.

I remembered watching the first UFC. You couldn't get it on TV. They were doing it bare knuckles. No gloves. I wanted to do that.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

I look at amazing fashion icons like Jackie O, and I'm like, Why can't I wear gloves?

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!

The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands.

Kane's gloves get pretty rank. He grabs you for a chokeslam, and you just want to faint.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I?'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you?ll need later as a pro. Someone who?s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn?t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you?re prepared for anything, you?ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

I'm always involved with training and the martial arts. It's not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.

In my travel kit you will find sanitizers, gloves, masks and a few medicines. I also carry chocolates, biscuits, water and dry fruits.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola