Skip to content

Championship Quote by Bob Cousy

“I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as…” quote by Bob Cousy — Download Open image

“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 Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Championship Cigar Faces Games Heard Loses NBA Nba championships Said Stuff Winning

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…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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.

Image

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

Image

Explore all 39 Bob Cousy quotes

More Championship quotes

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing…

Shaquille O'Neal

Image

I have wrestled in almost every tournament in the world. I've won the Olympics, NCAAs, and World Championships, but none of those can truly…

Jordan Burroughs

Image

The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior…

Image

Generally speaking, ROH championship matches are hard fought and grueling, and the fans are really into it. The ROH Championship means a lot to…

Image

My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.

Image

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

Image

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any…

Image

One day we'll have championship boxing in Cleveland and people will support it.

Image

My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.

Image

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

Image

I got everything I wanted out of Texas. Obviously, you'd love to win more. You'd love to win a national championship and compete at…

Image

When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the…

Image

Browse all 1,423 Championship quotes