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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.
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Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 

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