Basketball Quotes by Bob Cousy

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others…

— Bob Cousy

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

— Bob Cousy

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

— Bob Cousy

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been…

— Bob Cousy

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

— Bob Cousy

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up…

— Bob Cousy

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

— Bob Cousy

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the…

— Bob Cousy

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

— Bob Cousy

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to…

— Bob Cousy

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your…

— Bob Cousy

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

— Bob Cousy

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

— Bob Cousy

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances…

— Bob Cousy

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

— Bob Cousy

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

— Bob Cousy

I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so…

— Bob Cousy

We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then…

— Bob Cousy

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes,…

— Bob Cousy

Do your best when no one is looking.

— Bob Cousy

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

— Bob Cousy

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

— Bob Cousy

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid,…

— Bob Cousy

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

— Bob Cousy

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

— Bob Cousy