Bob Cousy Quotes (23 Quotes)

Al has done a great job. Basketball has never been too high on the totem pole in Chestnut Hill, but he has really brought it out there to the spotlight.

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.

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

A lot of areas have golf tournaments for good causes, ... but this one is special to me.

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.

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

Teammate Ed Macauley and I would come back to our hotel from Mass on Sunday morning, and some guys with pushed-in noses would be sitting in lobby chairs watching us. We'd deliberately limp or put our arms in slings and watch them scatter to the phones, imagining them calling their bookies telling them we were injured.

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.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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

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

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

I really like the way he sees the court and finds the open man.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

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.

French was my first language.

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

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

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

I think Allen is remarkable to watch. I can't get over how he keeps throwing his body into bigger guys, crashing to the floor and just getting right back up.

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

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

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