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 COUSYDo your best when no one is looking.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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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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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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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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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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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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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 grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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 the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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