Gloves Quotes - Page 3

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Purses, Lifts, Ifs

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• Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Eye, Play

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• A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Girl, Mother

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Purple

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

  Eddie Mathews

  Fun, Kids, Years

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

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• I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Home, Hands, Way

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• My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

  Emilie de Ravin

  Mom, Memories, Color

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• 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.

  Bob Uecker

  Shoes, Stuff, Contracts

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.51, Triumph Books

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• They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.

  Barry Lyga

  Light, Odds, Blood

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• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Light, Exclamation Points

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 17, 2014

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

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Boxing, Walks, Gym

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

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• ...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

  Will Self

  Fashion, Animal, Thinking

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• Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

  Theophile Gautier

  Fate, Hands, People

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• You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Winning, Awards, Gold

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• 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.

  Eva Mendes

  Animal, Thinking, Fur

  "Actress Eva Mendes keeps clothes on in latest anti-fur campaign" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2009.

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

  Yoenis Cespedes

  Softball, Bats, Fields

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• As if the world and they were hand and glove.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Hypocrisy, World

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.51

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• A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

  Trick Daddy

  Thug, Decision, Skins

  Trick Daddy, Peter Bailey (2010). “Magic City: Trials of a Native Son”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• The cat in gloves catches no mice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cat, Poor Richard, Mice

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

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• My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Car, Ankles

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• A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Eye, Artist, Reality

  "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.

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• 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.

  Chris Martin

  Next, Minutes, Spats

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• There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

  Roberto Clemente

  Differences, Needs, Places To Live

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• Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

  James Joyce

  Hands, Firsts, Christ

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1702, e-artnow

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