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The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. -- Reggie Jackson
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Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. -- Brenda Blethyn
A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense. -- Ryan Zimmerman
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
The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me. -- Omar Vizquel
Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge. -- Tara VanDerveer
Iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. -- Isabel Yosito
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove. -- Fred Couples
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me. -- Yoenis Cespedes
When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove. -- Don Drysdale
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. -- Babe Ruth
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
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
When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react. -- Keegan Bradley
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
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. -- Brooks Robinson
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
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. -- Rod Carew
When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out. -- Tony Gwynn
One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove. -- Rob Manuel
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. -- Dave Winfield
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. -- Dennis Eckersley
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
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
The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it. -- Paul Feig
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. -- Evan Davis
I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen. -- Bella Freud
Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team? -- Johnny Bench
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
The lost glove is happy. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
I have a glove. I'll play anywhere. -- Miguel Cabrera
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet. -- Demetri Martin
Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove. -- Tim McCarver
As if the world and they were hand and glove. -- William Cowper
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand -- Bodie Thoene
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. -- Robin Hobb
I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove. -- Willie Mays
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. -- P. G. Wodehouse
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. -- May Sarton
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! -- James Joyce
Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove. -- Isaac Stern
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. -- Georges Didi-Huberman
My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car. -- Phyllis Diller
The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint. -- Reggie Jackson
My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box... -- Massad Ayoob
I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove. -- Bob Dylan
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me -- Yoenis Cespedes
You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys. -- Dale Long
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. -- Vance Law
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! -- William Shakespeare
The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know. -- Roberto Clemente
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I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them. -- Seve Ballesteros
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. -- Marvin Hagler
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. -- Alain de Botton
[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson -- Audrey Niffenegger
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! -- William Shakespeare
2 Guys in a health club, one is putting on pantyhose. "Since when do you wear pantyhose?" "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment!" -- Henny Youngman
If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out. -- Jack Handey
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove. -- George R. R. Martin
I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box. -- Sparky Anderson
Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me. -- Rose McGowan
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. -- Bernie Williams
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. -- Andre Breton
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. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that obstacles wear to pull you away from reaching your destination will become slippery! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing. -- Charles Hazlewood
I never take out clients. It's bad policy. He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg. -- Gabrielle Black
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. -- Bob Lemon
There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove. -- Tom Mulligan
I love the summer.... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water..... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat. -- James Madison
It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment? -- Robert Schimmel
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. -- Jean Paul
Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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