Boxing Gloves Quotes:

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

- Marvin Hagler

topic: Cutting, Boxing, Gloves, Boxing Gloves

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

source: Twitter post from May 21, 2013

topic: Sports, Boxing, Killers, Killer Instinct, Boxing Champions

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

- John Barrymore

source: "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

topic: Boxing, Missing, Gloves, Venus De Milo, Archaeologists

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

topic: Kids, Blow, Boxing, West Side, Fooling Around

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

- George Foreman

topic: Funny, Boxing, Shadow, Funniest Sports, Great Boxing

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

- Evander Holyfield

source: Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

topic: Motivational, Champion, Doe, Great Boxing, Boxing Champions

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

source: "The man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.

topic: Character, Boxing, Feelings, Satirist, Boxing Gloves

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

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Boxing, Gloves, Walks, Boxing Gloves

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

- Zach Braff

topic: Baby, Fighting, Grieving, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Cutting, Boxing, Champion, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Motivational, Athlete, Boxing, Boxing Gloves, Boxing Ring

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

- Mickey Rourke

source: Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

topic: Confused, Boxing, House, Boxing Gloves

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Fate, Boxing, Gloves, Jeeves, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Art, Mean, Exercise, Boxing Gloves

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

- Joyce Carol Oates

source: "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

topic: Men, Boxing, Rings, Boxing Champions, Boxing Gloves

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

source: "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

topic: Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow, Reinventing Yourself, Apartheid

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

- Frank Bruno

source: "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

topic: Jealous, Athlete, People, Jealous Of Me, Pantomime

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

topic: Sports, Boxing, Helping, Mistreat, Boxing Gloves

... 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

source: Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

topic: Oil, Pie, Boxing, Mud Pies, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Fun, People, Boxing, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Photography, Art, Distance, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Boxing, Gloves, Muhammad, Boxing Gloves

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

topic: Science, Hands, Boxing, Boxing Gloves

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

source: Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

topic: Basketball, Rap, School, Graduating High School, Boxing Gloves