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French was my first language.
Bob Cousy / Basketball Player
Basketball
Firsts
Language
French
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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Basketball
Famous Basketball
Nba Player
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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Basketball
Grew Up
Heart
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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Basketball
Championship
Cities
Senior
Won
Scoring
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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Kids
Basketball
Depraved
Ghetto
Shy
Original
Socially
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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Basketball
Meals
Winning
Bumped
Meal
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But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
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Basketball
Complicated
Wanted
Coach
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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Basketball
Games
Riot
Syracuse
Riots
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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
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Basketball
December
Following
Olympics
Team
Joined
Russell
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The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
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Basketball
Big Deal
Careers
Nba
Plans
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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.
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Basketball
Body
Bulldogs
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We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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Kids
Basketball
Hung
Streets
Other Kids
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But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.
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Opportunity
Sports
Ideas
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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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Basketball
League
Strong
Owner
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Basketball
Issues
Melting
Melting Pot
Pot
Race
French
Cultures
Issue
Races
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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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Queens
Basketball
Moved
Neighborhood
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Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
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Basketball
Small Town
Towns
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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to
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Kids
Basketball
Hard Work
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We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.
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Basketball
Games
Night
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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.
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Best
Mind
Successful
Best Do Your Best Your
Looking
Then
Anything
Best Mind Your
Do Your Best
Put
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We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.
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Basketball
Boston
College
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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.
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Motivational
Basketball
Team
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My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
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Basketball
Father
Normal
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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.
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Basketball
Cities
Play
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Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
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Basketball
Fans
Maine
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The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
Bob Cousy / Basketball Player
Awards
Basketball
Championship
Mvp
Satisfying
Accomplishments
Award
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Personal
Terms
The Most Important
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Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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Basketball
Player
Team
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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.
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Basketball
Cities
Rights
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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.
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Basketball
Eye
Fighting
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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.
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Basketball
Fans
Team
Towns
Literally
Rabid
Seemed
Smaller
Teams
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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.
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Adam
Adam And Eve
Basketball
Country
Differences
African
African Americans
Eve
Primarily
Racial
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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.
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Success
Sports
Athlete
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I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
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Games
Nba Championships
Winning
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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.
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Motivational
Basketball
Children
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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.
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Ghetto
Heart
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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.
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Available
Basketball
Camps
Coaching
Events
Fortunate
Sophisticated
Standpoint
Advances
Arm
Cast
Clinics
Event
Technical
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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.
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Sports
Lucky
Years
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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.
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Basketball
Moving
Nba
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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?
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Leadership
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Winning
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