French was my first language.
BOB COUSYMy biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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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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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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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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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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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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 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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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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