My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSYThese 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.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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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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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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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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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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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 had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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 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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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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.
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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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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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