Quotes About The Ring

#1. When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

Sylvester Stallone

#2. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.

Lucy H. Pearce

#3. Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

Lauren Beukes

#4. The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

Jerry Lawler

#6. But what would happen if I put on the ring?" the boy asked.
"There is only one way to find out.

Jef Murray

#7. Well, I go wherever the ring takes me. Not because I'm a gold digger or anything; it's more of a Lord of the Rings thing. This ring gives me powers. Though I'm totally going to lose it when my hair falls out and I start calling it 'my precious.

Cindi Madsen

#8. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face.

Anne Rice

#9. It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,

Deborah Harkness

#10. Oh, Eddie, it never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all the records.

Mitch Albom

#11. Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple

Johnny Basham

#12. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

Ian McDonald

#13. At the end of the day, when two combatants get into the ring and/or cage, it's anybody's game, especially in MMA.

Bill Goldberg

#14. And here's the burglar!" said Bilbo stepping down into the middle of them, and slipping off the ring.

Anonymous

#15. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It

Muhammad Ali

#16. I want the things most people don't notice. The ring and the key and the way you have of wearing everything on the inside.

Victoria Schwab

#17. The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.

Timothy Bradley

#19. There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.

Seneca.

#20. I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

Richard C. Armitage

#21. The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

Jack Johnson

#22. When they pulled into the spot beside her car, Victoria got out as Shea hid the ring under his seat, before locking the doors.

Toni Aleo

#23. I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

Lennox Lewis

#25. Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Simon Van Der Meer

#26. I consider telling my building guard not to let him in, but I hear the ring of the elevator and realize the guard must have recognized the motherfucker from when he brought me home last week.

Katy Evans

#27. Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

Michael D. Higgins

#28. She pulled off the ring. So that was what he wanted. I honestly expected something grander.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. A ring? He reached to twist it, and Clary remembered Hodge in the library at the Institute, taking the ring from Jace's hand ...

Cassandra Clare

#30. When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

Kuno Becker

#31. I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

Lennox Lewis

#32. The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

Peter Jackson

#33. I'm a bad bet, Sunshine, but if you're willing to give me a whirl around the ring, I'm yours. Because you've got me so twisted up inside that I barely know if up is down. I'm so inside my head that I'm coming out of my asshole. Have mercy on me.

Jen Frederick

#34. 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.

George Foreman

#35. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in Great Britain by the London firm George Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954; an American edition followed on 21 October of the same year, published

J.R.R. Tolkien

#36. I knew when I bought the ring that it would be years before I gave it to Abby, but it made sense to keep it just in case the perfect moment happened to arise. Knowing it was there gave me something to look forward to, even now. Inside that box was the little bit of hope I had left.

Jamie McGuire

#37. I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

Mike Tyson

#38. I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults ... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

Curtis Jackson

#39. And the fact is that what Cortez said actually has the ring of truth. Not that kind of girl. But neither was Peter Zell that kind of guy. Nobody is the kind of person they used to be.

Ben H. Winters

#40. I watch as DJ easily bends down to slip under the ropes. He stands up to his full height and walks into the middle of the ring and my brain immediately drops right into my vagina.

Tara Sivec

#41. I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

Michael Spinks

#42. I can't be the Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#43. The ring had given him power according to his stature. It

J.R.R. Tolkien

#44. I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Eddie Guerrero

#45. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#46. This all has got to be, patently, the most unbelievable, the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. Somehow coming from your mouth, it has the ring of truth, but I doubt anyone would believe me if I told them what happened today.

Haruki Murakami

#47. At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

Rob Gronkowski

#48. My hat is in the ring.

Theodore Roosevelt

#49. Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

Jade Jones

#50. I'm so glad you brought that up Jay Lethal as a performer has grown into, I'll say this even though I'm wrestling him this Friday, he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the game right now. He's unreal. He's amazing in the ring. It doesn't matter who he's wresting. He's unreal on the microphone.

Adam Cole

#51. I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

Danny Garcia

#52. I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway,

#53. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.

Richard Ronald Allan

#54. I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

Mark McGrath

#55. Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.

Bernard Cornwell

#56. When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.).

Jonathan Haidt

#57. I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

Roberto Duran

#58. The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

Wladimir Klitschko

#59. I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

Beanie Sigel

#60. If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

Henry Rollins

#61. I could fight a dozen hounds from hell, I could bring down the son of Satan with a word, but put me in the ring with a psychotic chick, and I go down in the first.

Darynda Jones

#62. I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

George Foreman

#63. With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.

Oscar Wilde

#64. Never face the ring with fear, you will be brought down to lose with ease.

Auliq Ice

#65. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

Saint Basil

#66. When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.

Jake Roberts

#67. In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#68. The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron
and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring
embody the American dream of Eden.

Lewis H. Lapham

#69. Mitt Romney has a fund-raiser. He's going to get in the ring and fight Evander Holyfield. This is the dumbest thing Republicans have done since they wrote that open letter to Iran.

David Letterman

#70. Love is overrated. All it brings is emptiness." I twirled the ring again. "Definitely not beauty.

Scarlett Dawn

#71. My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Thomas Hood

#72. The world is the ring of his spells,
And the play of his miracles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.

Joaquin Phoenix

#74. I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

Joe Frazier

#75. My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Gene Tunney

#76. A two-week-old ceasefire in the Central African Republic collapsed, as conflict resumed between fighters tied to Muslim and Christian militias. French troops trying to hold the ring were attacked.

Anonymous

#77. I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

Steven Spielberg

#78. I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me.

Stephanie McMahon

#79. I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.

Kato

#80. Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.

Lorde

#81. In the ring I can stay until I'm old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

Muhammad Ali

#82. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#83. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;

J.R.R. Tolkien

#84. The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

#85. A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#86. Lysandra gazed at the ring, then lifted her eyes to Aelin's face - and threw her arms around her neck, squeezing tight. She took that as a yes.

Sarah J. Maas

#87. This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world.

Wladimir Klitschko

#88. I'm out in the ring, Shawn Michaels turns to me and says, 'Hey, I got a couple of vertebrae out. Would you mind puttin 'em in with that chair?' He turns his back, I whack him and all of a sudden I'm a bad guy.

Kevin Nash

#89. We're more than ready to deliver. When the pressure is on, I think that's when the Ring of Honor roster does the best. Not only the main event, the entire roster feels the pressure and are ready to deliver.

Adam Cole

#90. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

Marlen Esparza

#91. It was always the same: in the ring you wanted to kill someone, but once you got out you were mates again.

Robert Muchamore

#92. You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

Jake LaMotta

#93. Destiny is your bride;
your actions are the ring.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#94. It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.

Joe Frazier

#95. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.

Rocky Marciano

#96. Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly - Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache - Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly - Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?

Donald E. Westlake

#97. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream. In which no doubt you will see our good fortune and our hope. For imagining war he has let loose war,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#98. I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#99. The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.

Matthew Hussey

#100. Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.

Oscar De La Hoya