Douglas MacArthur, as president of the U.S. Olympic committee when the manager of the U.S. boxing team in the 1928 Olympic games wanted to withdraw the team because of what he thought was an unfair decision against an American boxer; reported in The New York Times (9 August 1928), p. 13
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Americans never quit.
— United States
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