60 Quotes by Bob Cousy

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

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.

We played every night. Sometimes we’d stay overnight after a game, but we’d usually drive on to our next destination.

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.

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.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College – very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.