Oscar Robertson Quotes
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Oscar Robertson Quotes & Sayings
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I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
— Oscar Robertson
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
— Oscar Robertson
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
— Oscar Robertson
The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.
— Oscar Robertson
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
— LeBron James
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
— Oscar Robertson
I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
— Oscar Robertson
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
— Oscar Robertson
But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.
— Oscar Robertson
Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
— Oscar Robertson
You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.
— Oscar Robertson
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
— Oscar Robertson
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
— Oscar Robertson
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
— Oscar Robertson
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
— Oscar Robertson
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
— Oscar Robertson
There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.
— Oscar Robertson
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
— Oscar Robertson
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
— Oscar Robertson
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
— Oscar Robertson
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
— Oscar Robertson
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
— Oscar Robertson
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
— Oscar Robertson
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
— Oscar Robertson
Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.
— Oscar Robertson
Basketball is basketball.
— Oscar Robertson
But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
— Oscar Robertson
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
— Oscar Robertson
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
— Oscar Robertson
The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'
— Cliff Robertson
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
— Oscar Robertson
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
— Oscar Robertson
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
— Oscar Robertson
