Best Gloves Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When it's time to hang up the gloves, I'll know.”

“I don't see how hard it is just to catch a pigskin coming your way, and you've got gloves. If you can't do that, you don't need to be playing football.”

“When I pull on those UFC gloves, that's my black jersey, that is All Black level.”

“My goal is to let everybody know I'm the greatest fighter to ever put on gloves.”

“I'm sure there's a time and a place for plastic gloves, aprons and nurses uniforms but not in my house!”

“I fought when most of the time we didn't even wear gloves.”

“I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.”

“There's no rule that states you must touch gloves before a fight.”

“Kane's gloves get pretty rank. He grabs you for a chokeslam, and you just want to faint.”

“When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'”

“Winning the Gloves made me believe I was somebody.”

“I'm going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not.”

“I won four 152-pound Golden Gloves titles.”

“It is a matter of pride to get boxing gloves from Stallone himself.”

“I am trying to be better than anybody who ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, and I think that pretty much sums up everything.”

“I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.”

“I look at amazing fashion icons like Jackie O, and I'm like, Why can't I wear gloves?”

“I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.”

“Every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves.”

“When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.”

“My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn't have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.”

“I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.”

“I was No. 1 in Golden Gloves, I was No. 1 at nationals. You can go down the list.”

“As a player I have to be ultra-careful, especially in supermarkets. How often does somebody pick up something, realize they don't want it and put it back for someone else to touch. So yes, I put my mask and gloves on to be safe because you don't want to get ill, do you?”

“I do believe when I put those little gloves on I can hurt anyone.”

“Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.”

“MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.”

“There are a lot of things that in MMA gloves that slip through that wouldn't with 16 ounce gloves. Learn how to fight with small gloves on and don't waste your brain in the gym. There is no reason to. You don't get paid for it. The guy you're fighting doesn't get paid for it. Save your brain.”

“No gloves cut a bit more, but that's not a problem if you don't fear blood.”

“I always thought the 8-ounce gloves were a good thing.”

“Some guys have issues with people touching their gloves.”

“Honestly, in this sport everyone is so good, everyone is so talented. You fight with four-ounce gloves on - in a perfect world, you'd be undefeated and walk away. That's a small percentage. That's Floyd Mayweather.”

“My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.”

“Just because someone sends you some gloves you don't need to keep making several posts with them. That's not how it works, you have to value your image.”

“It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.”

“We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.”

“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 am not a hypocrite to wear gloves while shaking hands with the people who come to meet me. But I like to maintain personal hygiene and take care of myself when I am not at work.”

“One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.”

“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”

“I've been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.”

“I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.”

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