60 Quotes by Bob Cousy

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.

George could literally score at will. There just wasn't anyone who was tall enough or strong enough who had that same sense of prowess. The fact that he was athletic and he could position himself pretty close to the basket made him literally unstoppable.

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

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.

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 Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6?-6 and built like a bulldog.

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

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.

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.