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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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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French was my first language.
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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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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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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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The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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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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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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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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