American - Athlete | August 9, 1928 -
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.
Bob Cousy
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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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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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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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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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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