A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

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

: Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big Dö : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big Dö Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  CAPTALLCAPTALLCAPTALL1878  HMS Pinafore, act1.

Motels can be big, but never grand.

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

Dies Osterreich ist eine kleineWelt, In der die groÞe ihre Probe h a« lt. Austria is a little world in which the big one holds its tryouts.

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
On the social and political disintegration affecting the  Austro- Hungarian Empire in the late1890s. Quoted in Heinrich Benedikt (ed) Geschichte der Republik Oesterreich (1954).

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

-Richler, Mordecai
Quoted in Time (Canadian edition), 31 May1971.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

-Smith, Logan Pearsall
Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

-Trump, Donald
  In Time,16 Jan.