A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
I would have loved to have worked with Kurt Angle. He would have been a lot of fun to be in the ring with.
The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.
I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.
I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.
Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.
I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.
My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.
No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.
You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.
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.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick and punch, and I'm supposed to cheat and find ways to win at all costs.
