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Bob Cousy Biography

Robert Joseph Cousy (born August 9, 1928) is an American retired professional basketball player. Cousy played point guard with the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963 and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1969–70 season. Making his high school varsity squad as a junior, he went on to earn a scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross, where he led the Crusaders to berths in the 1948 NCAA Tournament and 1950 NCAA Tournament and was named an NCAA All-American for 3 seasons.

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

Basketball, Games, Played, Riot, Riots, Syracuse

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Basketball, Senior, Cities, Scoring, Championship, Won

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

Basketball, Family, Issue, Issues, Pot, Race

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Basketball, Depression, Grew, Grew Up, Heart

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.

Basketball, Benignly, Black, Broken, Eye, Fighting

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

Awards, Basketball, Mvp, Personal, Terms, Thing

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.

Sports, Heart, Ghetto, Ellis, Boat, Fabricated

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

Basketball, Credit, Fans, Having, Indiana, State

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

Basketball, Hard Work, Kids, Looking, Mind, Successful

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.

Brought, Games, Heard, Nba Championships, Stuff, Winning

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.

Basketball, Coaching, Events, Playing, Sophisticated, Technical

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.

Lasts, Lucky, Sports, Timing, Told, Years

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.

African, Basketball, Country, Differences, Killing, People

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.

Athlete, Endeavor, Sincere, Sports, Success

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.

Basketball, Meant, Motivational, Team, Winning, Years

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.

Basketball, Fans, Literally, Rabid, Team, Towns

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

Basketball, Kids, Ghetto, Socially, Original

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.

Basketball, Chicago, Cities, Decided, Folded, Rights

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

Fairness, Ideas, Opportunities, Opportunity, Sports, Success

Do your best when no one is looking.

Basketball, Famous Basketball, Looking, Nba Player

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