[needle]

"See, the different parts of the brain set in little cups like this," he declared, placing the knuckles of one fist into the grooves between the knuckles of his other fist. "When you get hit a terrible shot—pop!—the brain flops out of them cups and you're knocked out. Then the brain settles back in the cups and you come to. But after this happens enough times, or sometimes even once if the shot's hard enough, the brain don't settle back right in them cups, and that's when you start needing other people to help you get around."

That's Sonny Liston, as related by Jack McKinney in a 1962 SI story

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/a.../index.htm

[needle]

"See, the different parts of the brain set in little cups like this," he declared, placing the knuckles of one fist into the grooves between the knuckles of his other fist. "When you get hit a terrible shot—pop!—the brain flops out of them cups and you're knocked out. Then the brain settles back in the cups and you come to. But after this happens enough times, or sometimes even once if the shot's hard enough, the brain don't settle back right in them cups, and that's when you start needing other people to help you get around."

That's Sonny Liston, as related by Jack McKinney in a 1962 SI story

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/a.../index.htm