boxer quotes

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
Alluding to US bases in Europe. Quoted in  James B Reston Deadline (1991).

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

- George Foreman
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).