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  • 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.

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

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

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

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

    Confused   Boxing   House  
    Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.
  • I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

    Boxing   Gloves   Walks  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Art   Mean   Exercise  
    John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from May 16, 2016
  • 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.

    Sports   Boxing   Helping  
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

    Sports   Boxing   Killers  
    Twitter post from May 21, 2013
  • 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.

    Basketball   Rap   School  
    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • ... 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.

    Oil   Pie   Boxing  
    Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
  • If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

    Cutting   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.

  • 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.

    Sports   Kids   Blow  
  • I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

    Funny   Boxing   Shadow  
  • 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.

  • The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

    Men   Boxing   Rings  
    "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.
  • 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.

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

    Fate   Boxing   Unseen  
    P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.
  • A champion shows who he is by what he does.

    Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017
  • 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.

    Science   Hands   Boxing  
  • 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 man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.
  • 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.

    Fun   People   Boxing  
  • I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

    "The man in the Irony Mask" by Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October 2007.
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