Bob Cousy Quotes
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The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?
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French was my first language.
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Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
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Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
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These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
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We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.
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Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
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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.
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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
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We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.
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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to
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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.
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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.
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My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
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I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.
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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 other areas of endeavor provide.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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.
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But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
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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.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.
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