My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSYBack then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
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 was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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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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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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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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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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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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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French was my first language.
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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 had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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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