{"id":476,"date":"2017-05-19T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/?page_id=476"},"modified":"2017-11-06T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:36:22","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style='padding-bottom:10px;' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1   '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Quotes<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>&#8220;Cooz was the absolute offensive master. What Russell was on defense, that&#8217;s what Cousy was on offense-a magician. Once that ball reached his hands, the rest of us just took off, never bothering to look back. We didn&#8217;t have to. He&#8217;d find us. When you got into a position to score, the ball would be there.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <i>former Celtic star Tommy Heinsohn<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game bears an indelible stamp of your rare skills and competitive daring.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <i>President John F. Kennedy in a wire sent to Cousy upon his retirement<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have little doubt that while Dr. Naismith may have invented the game, Cousy made it as close to an art form as possible.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <i>a writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Celtics wouldn&#8217;t be here without him. If he had played in New York, he would have been as big as Babe Ruth. I think he is anyway.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <i>Celtics owner Walter Brown upon Cousy&#8217;s retirement<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/cousy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}