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.
BOB COUSYSports 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.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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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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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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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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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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That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns – the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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