Bob Cousy Quotes

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few…
• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to
• 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 Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.
• But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
• Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
• French was my first language.
• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
• I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.
• I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
• I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
• Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
• 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.
• 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.
• My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
• My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
• People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at…
• Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
• Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
• That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted…

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