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Any carbon steel will have a higher hardness (Brinell), and, logically, UTS will be higher, when quenched and tempered than when Normalized and tempered, however ductility will suffer dramatically. Quenching will give you a higher surface, or near surface hardness, but the core will be less so. Air quenching after normalizing will give a more uniform cross sectional hardness.
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