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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.

Bob Cousy

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
Do your best when no one is looking.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Famous Player
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Careers Games
Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Body Bulldogs
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.
BOB COUSY

Lucky Sports Years
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Issues Race
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.
BOB COUSY

Championships Games Winning
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY

Basketball League Strong
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Eye Fighting
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Games Riot
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Senior
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.
BOB COUSY

Athlete Sports Success
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
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 COUSY

Basketball Small Town Towns
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Team
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Country Differences

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