Oscar Robertson Quotes

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are…
• Basketball is basketball.
• When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have…
• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
• 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.
• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And…
• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
• But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
• College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that…
• 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…
• I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.
• I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
• I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
• I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
• I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

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