Top 110 Gloves Quotes

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.

My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.

There’s not a lot of things to look out for in amateur boxing. Once the headgear comes off, once the 10-ounce gloves come on and you’re fighting men and you’re doing all these different things, that’s where the experience comes.

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.

If you don’t have a team that can run, you have to put the big gloves on and duke it out.

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.

There’s a family tradition of fighting in the Kansas City Golden Gloves. My older brother, Tim, did, and so did my father’s two youngest brothers, Trent and Troy. They all won the Golden Gloves. So when my mother asked me to keep the tradition going, I did.

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They’re still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

My artificial leg was very unstable on the ice so I had to be before careful. I couldn’t tend to my wounds because my amputated leg would have suffered frostbite. I couldn’t even remove my gloves.

I can’t pick up a pair of new gloves like Alec Stewart or Mike Atherton. I have to get them sweaty and loose, and put extra stuff on my gloves to protect the fingers.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he’d always hold for us.

I buy sleeping bags, food, gloves and warmers, and I just usually go out in Bath, which is where I’m from, and hand them out. I’ve done it on Christmas Eve, schedule allowing.

I think deerskin work gloves are the answer to everything. You can give them to someone who gardens or someone who works outside. And you can give them to someone who grills; they’re great for grilling. I wear them all the time, 24/7.

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

I do believe when I put those little gloves on I can hurt anyone.

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.

I am not a hypocrite to wear gloves while shaking hands with the people who come to meet me. But I like to maintain personal hygiene and take care of myself when I am not at work.

Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost so many dogs, I strongly desire more help to keep the place clean and gloves and gowns and a thorough fitting up of our operating room.

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.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

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.

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I’d walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend’s door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.

I’ve been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.

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.

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.

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

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

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

Sometimes we have to sell UFC clothes, backpack, gloves, stuff like that, to make some extra money to finish a camp. It’s quite difficult, but we go on.

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

The only time I have exchanged gear with someone was with The Undertaker at WrestleMania 24. I gave him my kick-pads and my tights from that, and I got his gloves. It is pretty cool. I am glad I got that memory.

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

Winning the Gloves made me believe I was somebody.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they’re big boys, and they can throw hard.

As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It’s in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.

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

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.

I wanted to wear fingerless gloves at my confirmation. I think I always wanted to be different and felt very stifled at school.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

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

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.

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.

The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.

Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has displayed in Afghanistan and in Iraq, only a vigilant and determined campaign of confrontation can deter and obstruct them.

Well-struck baseballs must land safely in the gloves of fielders; borderline calls must go the way of the artist on the mound. Pitch selection must be on point. Defensive genius must occur. And everyone must adhere to the time tested baseball tradition of superstition.

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?’

Don’t be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.

I’ve had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of lungs, was master of ceremonies at East Ham working men’s club in east London. I felt so proud when I saw him in his white gloves calling out the names of the dances.

The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.

My dad was a kind of Kimbo Slice-type street fighter. He’d go out in the backyards up and down the Gulf Coast and duke it out. They’d wrap T-shirts around their hands for gloves, and take bets. He was a tremendous body puncher. One shot was usually all it took, so they called him ‘One Time.’

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.