Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Bob Cousy

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

Bob Cousy

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.

Bob Cousy

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Billy Bush

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

Bridgette Wilson

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

Brad Stevens

The game honors toughness

Brad Stevens

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Brad Stevens

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

Brad Stevens

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Brad Stevens

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

Brad Stevens

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Brad Stevens

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

Brad Stevens

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Barry Goldwater

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

Barbara Bush

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Antonio Gates

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Antonio Gates

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Mark Cuban

We both went to school at Indiana University and we were big basketball fans. Living in Dallas, there was no way to listen to our favorite Hoosiers.

W. S. Gilbert

We both really care about the kids, and we're both basketball junkies. And we're trying to teach the skills they can use throughout their life.