Bob Cousy Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Bulldogs, Body

• 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

  Basketball, Moving, Nba

• 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

  Basketball, Country, Differences

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Awards, Mvp

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Hard Work

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Nba, Careers

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Team, Player

• 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

  Basketball, Rights, Cities

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Games, Riot

• 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

  Basketball, Coaching, Events

• French was my first language.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Firsts, Language

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Winning, Meals

• 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.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Eye, Fighting

• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Heart, Grew Up

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Father, Normal

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Strong, League

• 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.

  Bob Cousy

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Streets

• I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Ghetto

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Race, Issues

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Queens, Neighborhood

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Towns, Small Town

• I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Senior, Cities

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Team, Olympics

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Children

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