Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Bobby Knight

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Bobby Knight

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Knight

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Bob Costas

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

French was my first language.

Bob Cousy

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Bob Cousy

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Bob Cousy

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Bob Cousy

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

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.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Bob Cousy

Do your best when no one is looking.

Bob Cousy

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.