Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
BOB COUSYEvery 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.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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French was my first language.
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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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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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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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