“Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.”
On hearing that his prizefighter, Stanley Ketchel, was dying of gunshot wounds.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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American writer 1876–1933Related quotes

“You can count on him. He'll always let you down.”
23rd :Snap, Crackle and Bop (1980).
"Do not go mental, and with that, goodnight."

As quoted in Escape The Pace: 100 Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life (2002) by Lisa Rickwood; this quote appears at least as early as 1996 online
1990s
This is a pattern of communication almost as universal and well-entrenched as Newton's laws of motion.
Source: Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977), p. 17.
“A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.”
Quoted in My Music by Steve Race