"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."
(Gene Tunney, nome completo James Joseph Tunney, campione americano di pesi massimi e attore; New York City, 25 maggio 1897 – Greenwich, 7 novembre 1978)