How to count all records but only retrieve (LIMIT) a specific number for display?

Question

I want to echo only the first 10 rows, but I need to count the total number of rows affected by the query.

I was doing a LIMIT 10 and then counting with

Answer 1

count all records

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Badges WHERE UID = '$user' ORDER by Date DESC");
$count = mysql_num_rows($data);
echo "No of Records is :" . $count;

print 10 records...

 $data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Badges WHERE UID = '$user' ORDER by Date DESC LIMIT 0, 10");
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
        { 
        echo $row['Site'];
        }