Gloves Quotations

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

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.

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.

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

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.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

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.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

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.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

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

I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'

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.

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.

Throughout North America and Europe, we're seeing kids have less ice time and fewer cold days. It's time our governments drop the gloves on climate change before global warming ruins our national sports.

We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.

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

She struggled. She started good, but then she put on these wool gloves and got a rash. Her hands turned raw. We had to tape her hands up for her to play.

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.

Simply put, you put your gloves on and you've got the pipes, or as I call them, the sucking tubes, and it gets everything out.

My gloves were wet, man, ... At least I don't have to pay the fine now.

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Political disputes should be decided with two pairs of boxing gloves and a ring.

I don't know for sure, ... but I have to wear gloves because my knuckles drag on the ground.

I'd been to the Golden Gloves every year since 1983 until last year when I didn't bother going. The last few years it has been such a dry tournament with no interest. My first year in the Gloves there were 16 guys in my weight class. That hasn't happened in years. Last year my weight class had one guy. Some weight classes had nobody. When you go from 16 guys in weight classes to nobody, you have a problem.

I had two good swings there. That's part of baseball. You don't get rewarded for good swings all the time. You have guys there with gloves and that's what they're paid to do is get you out.

Gloves are essential when removing ribs of beef from the oven.

He will go down as one of the greats of Western Australian cricket not only for his efforts with the gloves and the bat but also for his leadership and team spirit.

He finished the game and looked like he had no problem. When he took his gloves off, it didn't look like he was all bandaged up or anything. My answer always is: If he's injured and can't play, I'll deal with it. If not, I don't want to occupy my time with things that haven't happened. I don't want to create problems for myself.

Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

Golden Gloves boxing is a goal for these kids, it's a moment of glory for them and so in another way, if this is attractive for young people, then you might find this is a moment of glory.

We make sure all of our people have safety stuff on like rubber gloves in case we run into something that's not supposed to be there.

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.

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.

Jay Rosehill is a prototypical Tampa Bay player. He is physical, aggressive, he likes to hit and isn't afraid to drop his gloves when necessary.

Our bats just wouldn't let our gloves beat us tonight.

We need some starts where we get seven or eight innings, and it would be great if we could even get one at some point in which the guys in the bullpen wouldn't even have to pick up their gloves one day.

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

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.

Most kids come in right off the bat, they want to put on a pair of gloves and beat on somebody. That's not the way it works.

You can buy everything from hats and gloves made out of camel wool, sheep felted mats, new products such as tea cozies to felt juggling balls... so it brings a lot of money into the local communities and gives people money to send their kids to school

We put a new engine in for the final two qualifying sessions. The other engine got us through the Ringers Gloves Battle but was going away as we headed into the semifinal and final rounds. With the Battle behind us our concentration is now on the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals.

We provide the gloves if they want to touch it (which many do).

We provided masks and gloves to staff and constantly updated them on the location of new cases.

We're really good friends. We used to go out all the time in the middle of winter and play (basketball) with our gloves on.

We can't just throw our gloves out onto the field anymore and expect to win. The world has caught up. A few countries may have passed us. There are great players from all over the planet.

Typically, winter weather is both bad news and good news. It's good because it drives demand for seasonal goods like coats, gloves and snowboards. The risk is that we will have more storms ahead, but it's hard to predict if they will fall on weekends.

Typically, winter weather is both bad news and good news, ... It's good because it drives demand for seasonal goods like coats, gloves and snowboards. The risk is that we will have more storms ahead, but it's hard to predict if they will fall on weekends.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Fighting in the Golden Gloves makes you ready to fight. Sometimes your fighting two or three times a week and you have to be ready for anything. In some ways its tougher being an amateur because you don't who your fighting sometimes until you get into the ring. In the pros you know who your fighting and you can prepare.

The other network operators are starting to get their story together so they can take the fight back to Hutchison and try to take the 3G mindshare back from them. The gloves are off. We're going to see aggressive competition for 3G.

We give them gloves and put them right in there. We don't pull any punches.

We just showed up, threw our gloves on the field, expected to win and deserved to get beat.

We just showed up and that was about it. This team isn't good enough to just throw their gloves on the field and win. It was our worst effort of the year.

We didn't mix the split in, we're going to wait a couple of outings and let him air out before mixing in the split in outing three or four. We're guarding it with kid gloves right now.

Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.

Everybody understands that we've got to put down the boxing gloves and get some stuff done.

Every boxer that puts on the gloves dreams of someday hearing the words 'and new champion...'

There's no question that Wal-Mart is 'taking the gloves off' on price heading into the holiday,

I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.

The substance that killed Benjamin is still in that bottle. I'd advise him to put gloves on.

see the world in a very specific way and try to impose their views on the society at large. A lot of what I do is confront these assumptions and try to stop the assaults so the public can make an informed, unbiased decision. I like to take on causes that other firms might avoid. My clients appreciate that I like to get in the arena, take off the gloves and throw down.

Prior to the chair, (detention officers) would have to put on rubber gloves and go into (the inmates') bodies.

After a long, cold winter, consumers are ready to pack away their scarves and gloves and hit the stores for their spring wardrobe. The seasonal weather should allow many apparel retailers to breathe a sigh of relief.

Apparel is a category that hadn't yet seen a trigger to boost sales. Rule of thumb is if you see consumers wearing coats, hats and gloves when they're in a department store like Macy's, that's probably what they'll also be looking to buy. And we're seeing that.

Apparel is a category that hadn't yet seen a trigger to boost sales, ... Rule of thumb is if you see consumers wearing coats, hats and gloves when they're in a department store like Macy's, that's probably what they'll also be looking to buy. And we're seeing that.

The weather has been, started out about like this. Got horribly nasty for a while. Even had to put my gloves on which I hate to fish with but what the heck, I am still catching them that is what counts.

You don't want him to drop the gloves all the time because he's our star player. But when he does, nobody's too disappointed because that means he's fired up and ready to go.

This is the last time you'll see me in these gloves and these shorts in this Octagon, because I'm retiring. That's it for me. It's time to do something else.

They're hooded. They've got gloves on. They have a tool bag that they're carrying with them that has hammers in it.

It was definitely a way to make extra change. I got some gloves from Emmitt, Michael and Deion and went back to school the next day and made some money. That was the cool thing about it.

That is why things happen to him. That is why he has to take a punch every once in a while. He is lucky I didn't drop my gloves and (punch him) harder. It was just a little reminder, and the next time, if he keeps going, maybe it will be worse.

It wasn't always throwing to them. I'd put the ball down, put the receivers gloves on and go out there and run with them. And they responded to that. They soaked it all in. These kids, they all know how to win. And they brought that attitude to our football team.

The last thing we want to do is to embarrass our country, with how much they've given to every single Major League player. We can't go there and get embarrassed. We need to go out, hustle, play hard and do all that good stuff. There are some tough teams, so we can't expect to go out and win just by throwing our gloves on the field.

The CDC has recommended that hunters shooting game birds use gloves to pick up the animals.

In Caterpillar's time, replacement workers were seen as dirty pool by the union. That was kid gloves compared to bankruptcy.

I'm not asking him to change the world, to do more time or send me a few bucks for my personal pain or to sign an autograph or talk to my kids. I want to see Mike Tyson come out of his corner with that look in his eyes and his gloves up near his jaw.

In addition, I can't criticize any station's national advertisers. It goes without saying that I wouldn't have the urge to criticize local advertisers. It would be biting the hand that feeds. I am willing to criticize fast food in the generic and insurance in the generic but I do put on the gloves when it comes to specific issues.

I guess the last time I was in the Budweiser Shootout was 1992. I finished third in the first segment and eighth in the second. It's just a chance for your team to have some fun. It's a lot like the All-Star race where you get the chance to take the gloves off and fight for first. I'm real proud that I was able to win a pole last year and get my new NAPA team into the Shootout. And now we get to go out and try to win it.

I didn't even see Frank's swing. By the time I put down my helmet and my batting gloves and sat down, Milton went deep.

Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

I don't see it as a big deal at all, ... I look at it as a new challenge. I won two Gold Gloves and an MVP at shortstop. I thought I achieved just about everything personally at shortstop. Now it's time to win. I've always thought of myself as a team player. Playing third base is the ultimate team move.

I barely had time to get my batting gloves on. That was probably the earliest I pinch hit all year. It kind of caught me off guard.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.