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Do your best when no one is l...

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

I once heard that Paul Seymou...

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 65 quotes

I dribbled by the hour with m...

I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

Sports create a bond between ...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

We ran an up-tempo, transitio...

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

Every jock gets up and tells ...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

Kerner decided to trade my ri...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

We lived in Yorkville, which ...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

I was literally fabricated ov...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

There were riots in just abou...

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

Cooper was my road roommate, ...

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

That seemed to be the case wi...

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 65 quotes

Russell joined the team in De...

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

We hung out on the streets, p...

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

People have been killing beca...

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.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

You have to remember that coa...

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

Race wasn't an issue. My fami...

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

My biggest win was getting th...

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

We had a strong relationship ...

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

The MVP award was very satisf...

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Bob Cousy 65 quotes

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