We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSYBack then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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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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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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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 African Americans.
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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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Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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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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