119 Gloves Quotes
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Famous Gloves Quotes
If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. — Mark Rippetoe
When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands. — Henry Edward Armstrong
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. — Paul Dickson
If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The hand is the tool of tools. — Aristotle
Hands have their own language. — Simon Van Booy
A handball is when your hand touches the ball. — Gary Lineker
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. — Vladimir Lenin
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. — Marvin Hagler
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. — Eric Cantona
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. — Jude Law
You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets. — Sayings
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. — Laurence Leamer
What the hand does the mind remembers. — Maria Montessori
Short Gloves Quotes
- A cat with gloves never catches mice — Greek Proverbs
- No flea is ever caught with gloves. — Albanian Proverbs
- I’m going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not. — Holly Holm
- A champion shows who he is by what he does. — Evander Holyfield
- You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. — Joseph Stalin
- The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind. — R. S. Thomas
- Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved. — Arthur Guiterman
- Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P. G. Wodehouse
- Iron hand in a velvet glove. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. — Robin Hobb
Baseball Glove Quotes
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. — Vance Law
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. — John Thorn
Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey. — Jeremy Roenick
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon
I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves. — Bob Uecker
Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either. — Jerry Coleman
I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down. — Bernie Williams
But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go. — Smoky Joe Wood
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. — W. P. Kinsella
White Glove Quotes
Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it. — Dorothy Parker
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves. — Banksy
I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. — Taylor Swift
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. — Ethel Waters
My stylist chose the white gloves and I think she did a spectacular job....I couldn't believe the stir my gloves were making at the dinner. — Maria Bartiromo
Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses. — William Shakespeare
The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red. — Frank Crawford
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. — William Ruckelshaus
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love. — Jeanette Winterson
Boxing Glove Quotes
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
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. — Evander Holyfield
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing — Adrian Grenier
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself. — Lana Parrilla
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. — Marvin Hagler
I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. — Zach Braff
It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable. — Sugar Ray Leonard
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'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
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
Hand In Glove Quotes
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. — Jimmy Dean
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. — Georges Didi-Huberman
I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate. — Harmon Killebrew
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand. — C. S. Lewis
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! — James Joyce
Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. — Herman Melville
Iron hand in a velvet glove. — Charles V
What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach? — John Osborne
Boxing Gloves Quotes
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
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
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise. — John Boyle O'Reilly
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. — Isabel Yosito
I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born! — Fabio Gatti
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. — Mickey Rourke
... 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
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
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future. — Shayne Ward
My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box. — Massad Ayoob
People Writing About Gloves
More Gloves Quotes
The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. — Mark Rippetoe
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. — Jenny Joseph
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal. — Chance the Rapper
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. — Sherwood Smith
I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality. — Valentino Rossi
It's been pretty bizarre to kind of watch the whole thing unfold, primarily because I do feel like mainstream media has given a lot of softball interviews. And even this tweet back and forth with Maxine Waters very politely asking him to attend a hearing, and him politely deferring, it was bizarre. This guy just committed a $10 billion fraud, and why is he getting treated with kid gloves? — Brian Armstrong
When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services. — Andre Leon Talley
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves. — Grantland Rice
Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself. — Athol Fugard
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied. — Dorothy Parker
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! — William Shakespeare
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. — Ellen DeGeneres
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art. — Morton Feldman
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal. — Stephen King
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. — Babe Ruth
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently. — John Edgar Wideman
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden. — Joe Frazier
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