Top 40 Ropes Quotes

I like the skill set required to be an outdoorsman – to cook food over fire and to climb rocks without ropes, to move around using nothing but yourself and maybe some rudimentary tools.

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That’s how I came up with it.

I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He’s now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

I know the ropes of this industry, and I also know how unpredictable it can be.

The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

I don’t know how I didn’t kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, ‘What if my harness didn’t work?’ I’m so lucky that nothing ever happened.

I thought wrestling was the stuff where people jumped off ropes. So that was my experience with wrestling.

I might be out of the league if I didn’t have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn’t care. This is war – not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that’s a victory he savors and desires – unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.

It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give, what to do.

Generally, if you’re a baker who’s still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It’s always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

I don’t mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it’s important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

I really like battle ropes. They’re so versatile; you can get a terrific workout doing a ton of different exercises with them. My clients like them because they’re a good way to get aggression out, too. Had a bad day? Take it out on the ropes!

In the real world, there’s a lot of things that we can’t control, but when I step through those ropes I get to control everything.

I founded an educational software company called Knowledge Revolution. We had the first fully animated physics lab on the computer. You could take ropes, pulleys, balls and anything else you’d use in your physics textbook and the program would allow you to build anything you can think of in a physics lab.

We didn’t have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

You can assist another director and learn the ropes of the craft over the years, but becoming a director is about finding your own voice, so you’ve got to experiment.

My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, ‘Where’s the fun? Where’s the glamour?’

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Luckily, I had a guy like Andre Johnson to show me the ropes. He’s had many quarterbacks in his career and he still had a successful career. Just having a guy like that to tell me to control what I can control, that’s really all you can do.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

When you have new people coming in and you sort of want to show them the ropes, it’s always easier to have people that know the process and are able to sort of just do their thing, and then everyone can kind of follow their lead.

When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and things like that, I came home, and my back was just one huge bruise.

Every time I step foot through the ropes, I try to entertain and put on the best match possible.

I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don’t you just clothesline the guy?

My youngest daughter sings. She’s going to be very good. She’s graduated from Music School and she’s been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she’s going to be all right.

I know what it’s like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It’s an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, ‘Sitting for white patrons only,’ or ‘Colored sitting only.’

In high school, I interned at my mother’s restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

At my academy, I have a full 20×20 canvas but I don’t have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don’t get on my back on the ropes.

We’ve climbed in 60- to 75-kilometer-an-hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it’s all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that’s why we’ve been so successful. We always climb with what we have.

I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.

I enjoy Otis Thorpe; he took me under his wing when I was a rookie. I’m also a fan of Ron Harper. He showed me the ropes and showed me what it was to play in the NBA.

Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

I’ve loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don’t know where I’d be without it.

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I’ve talked to Tom about it. I don’t think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain’s cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.

I never thought I could do certain things like somersaults and jumping off the ropes and flips. When you actually learn to do it, you’re really amazed with what your body can do.