Long Count or Slow count is a term used in boxing. When a boxer is knocked down in a fight, the referee will count over them and the boxer must rise to their feet unaided by the count of ten or else is deemed to have been knocked out. A long count occurs when a boxer is given more than the alloted time (a notional ten seconds) to rise to his or her feet.
Famous quotes containing the words long and/or count:
“I raise my pelvis to God
so that it may know the truth of how
flowers smash through the long winter.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I’ll never feel ineffectual again. I’ll never feel I don’t count again.”
—Barbara Feldon (b. 1941)