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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.

Bob Cousy

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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Ghetto Heart Sports
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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Basketball Children Motivational
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
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
Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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Basketball Body Bulldogs
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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Basketball Player Team
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Basketball Issues Race
Do your best when no one is looking.
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Basketball Famous Player
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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Basketball Games Riot
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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Basketball Careers Games
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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.
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Athlete Sports Success
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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Basketball Eye Fighting
French was my first language.
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Basketball Firsts Language
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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Basketball Fans Maine
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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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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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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