--- title: "1 Really Career Quotes By Bob Cousy" description: "1 Really Career quotes by Bob Cousy. Plus more from Bob Cousy and more Really Career sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png" --- > [The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-so-it-wasn-t-really-in-my/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png) ## More 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 on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/i-had-endured-six-years-of-frustration-so-i-think-winning-it-all/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/my-biggest-win-was-getting-the-meal-money-bumped-from-5-to-7/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/back-then-every-small-town-had-a-gym-and-if-itseated-more-than-2-000/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/people-have-been-killing-because-of-racial-differences-since-the-time/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/we-hung-out-on-the-streets-played-stickball-and-did-all-of-the-things/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 almost immediately.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/kerner-decided-to-trade-my-rights-to-the-chicago-stags-which-sounded/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/do-your-best-when-no-one-is-looking-if-you-do-that-then-you-can-be/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/we-played-every-night-sometimes-we-d-stay-overnight-after-a-game-but/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/my-family-was-poor-my-father-drove-a-cab-for-a-living-but-we-felt/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/the-mvp-award-was-very-satisfying-in-terms-of-personal/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 play basketball.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/it-also-didn-t-take-me-long-to-decide-that-tri-cities-wasn-t-for-me/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/do-your-best-when-no-one-is-looking-if-you-do-that-then-you-can-be-2/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/i-once-heard-that-paul-seymour-said-as-much-as-winning-an-nba/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [French was my first language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/french-was-my-first-language/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) > [Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/every-jock-gets-up-and-tells-the-world-how-lucky-he-is-but-i-feel/) [Bob Cousy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-cousy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really-career/bob-cousy/#itemlist", "name": "1 Really Career Quotes By Bob Cousy", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Cousy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-cousy/the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-so-it-wasn-t-really-in-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.” — Bob Cousy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really-career/bob-cousy/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really-career/bob-cousy/", "name": "Really Career Quotes by Bob Cousy", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really-career/bob-cousy/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/bob-cousy-16775_basketball_the-nba-wasn-t-a-big-deal-at-that-time-s_1939667.png" }, "description": "1 Really Career quotes by Bob Cousy. 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