We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSYWe had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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