Basket Quotations | Page 7

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

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

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

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.

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.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

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

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

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.

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