Boxing Gloves Quotes

I'm such a germaphobe that I think sanitation gloves should be thicker than boxing gloves. ~ Jarod Kintz

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other. ~ George Johnson

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training. ~ George Foreman

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. ~ John Boyle O'Reilly

I want to merge oven mitts with boxing gloves, so I could effectively, and safely, fight fires. After all, fire fighters make better lovers. ~ Jarod Kintz

I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy. ~ Ryan Montgomery

I've been meaning to go shopping for boxing gloves, but I've been putting it off. I just need to knock it out and be done with it. ~ Jarod Kintz

Boxing is the most extreme metaphor of personal liability – you enter the ring alone and compete the same way. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it. ~ Norman Corwin

Her bosom filled the jacket like a pair of boxing gloves stuck inside it. ~ Walter Kaylin

I've often wondered why boxing gloves are bright red. If I were a boxer, I'd wear camouflage colored boxing gloves so my opponent would never see my punches coming. ~ Jarod Kintz

To paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on. ~ Brenda Ueland

After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. ~ Muhammad Ali

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. ~ Marvin Hagler

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it. ~ Alexis Arguello

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. ~ Mickey Rourke

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. ~ Stephen Colbert

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ~ Gene Tunney

I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this? ~ Tony McMahon

I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun. ~ Daniel Jacobs

I'd never trust a surgeon who didn't wear gloves when he operated. Even if those gloves he didn't wear were boxing gloves. He might as well, because I know he's going to beat me up over the price. ~ Jarod Kintz

The glove compartment of my car is empty, but one of these days, I'm going to fill it with an assortment of gloves - everything from boxing gloves to the oven mitts I used when I burned my last bridge. ~ Jarod Kintz

I'm not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights. ~ Jarod Kintz

I'd like to thank ma da (dad) ... my mum for doin' aw ma washin' ~ Charlie Flynn

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator. ~ George Foreman

I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment. ~ Adam Reed

If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing. ~ Chael Sonnen

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up. ~ Matthew D. Heines

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America ~ Jimmy Wilde

Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet."
A breathless chuckled escaped me.
"Me too. Once we're home ... "
"Lots of noise. ~ Lisa Kessler

Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse. ~ Mike Tyson

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved ~ Joyce Carol Oates

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it. ~ Muhammad Ali

There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World. ~ Katy Evans

I'm not even a household name in my own household ~ Mike Middleton

But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything. ~ Miles Davis

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds. ~ Mike Tyson

The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat. ~ Matthew Hussey

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one. ~ Irwin Winkler

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs. ~ Tonya Harding

MY PAJAMAS ARE soaked with sweat when I jolt awake and there is a third person in my bedroom. A man I've never seen before. I begin screaming like an injured monkey.

"Calm down," Josh says into my ear. I scramble into his lap and press my face into his collar bone, huffing his cedar scent so hard I probably suck out his ghost. I'm about to be taken to a scary medical facility, away from the safety of my bed and these arms.

"Don't let them, Josh! I'll get better!"

"I'm a doctor, Lucy. How long and what symptoms?" The man puts on some gloves. ~ Sally Thorne

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on. ~ Ruth Stout

The punches you miss are the ones that wear you out. - Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee ~ Benjamin Graham

When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet ... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world ... ~ Kobo Abe

what's the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper? ~ Seneca

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone. ~ Mike Tyson

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence ... Islam is not a killer religion ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. ~ Muhammad Ali

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19. ~ Roy Jones Jr.

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. ~ Alain De Botton

Atticus adjusted his glasses as he peered down at the blanket. "Hey, is that the book Nellie told us about?"
Jake's eyes flicked to Olivia's book. "You've got it outside in the sun? Are you out of your minds?"
Amy crossed her arms. "We're being careful."
"It's not about careful, this is a five-hundred-year-old manuscript! You should be wearing gloves - Atticus brought some - and keeping it out of the sunlight."
"It didn't take you long to start barking orders!" Any exclaimed, her face flushing. "But then you always know best, don't you?"
"Somebody has to be mature in this situation," Jake said, his gaze flashing at Ian, who was now intently trying to brush cookie crumbs off his pants.
"True. In that case, we'd rather consult your little brother," Ian said with a smirk. "Medieval manuscripts are his field, am I right?"
"Technically, it's early Renaissance," Jake said.
"Thanks for the correction, my good man. Amy is right - you do know best." Ian slipped his arm around Amy. "She's so perceptive. One of the many things I adore about her."
"It's getting chilly. Why don't we go inside?" Amy suggested brightly as she tried to step out of the circle of Ian's arm.
Ian took the opportunity to rub her shoulder. "You do feel rather cold," he said. "Let's sit by the fire. Jake, since you're so interested in proper handling, why don't you take the book?"
Jake snatched up the book and furiously stomped off toward the house.
"You f ~ Jude Watson

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley. ~ Budd Schulberg

I like running, and I like boxing. ~ Stephanie Sigman