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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.

Bob Cousy

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Bob Cousy
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: August 9
Actor
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Manhattan borough
New York City
Robert Joseph Cousy
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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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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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We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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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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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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French was my first language.
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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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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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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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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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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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.
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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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