Bob Cousy Quotes

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

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.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

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.

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

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.

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

Do your best when no one is looking.

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.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

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.

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

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

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

French was my first language.

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.

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.