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.
BOB COUSYPeople 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.
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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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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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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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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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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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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French was my first language.
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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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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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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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I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.
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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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