Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. Bob Cousy More Quotes by Bob Cousy More Quotes From Bob Cousy 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 athletesuccesssports 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 hard-workbasketballkids 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 fightingeyebasketball In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can? Bob Cousy leadershipwinningsports Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog. Bob Cousy bulldogsbodybasketball 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 nbabasketballmoving We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league. Bob Cousy basketballstrongleague We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. Bob Cousy neighborhoodqueensbasketball 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 luckysportsyears We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did. Bob Cousy streetsbasketballkids 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. Bob Cousy basketballcitiesplay But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated. Bob Cousy basketballcomplicatedwanted Do your best when no one is looking. Bob Cousy famous-basketballnba-playerbasketball 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 basketballcitiesrights 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 ghettoheartsports 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 coachingeventsbasketball 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 bostonbasketballcollege We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination. Bob Cousy basketballgamesnight 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 basketballmotivationalchildren I grew up in the heart of the Depression. Bob Cousy grew-upbasketballheart
