Bob Cousy Quotes

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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.

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.

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

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

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

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

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

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.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

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.

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