Oscar Robertson Quotes - Page 2

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• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, College

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• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

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• 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

  Basketball, Kids, Player

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• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Way, Coaches

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• People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• 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 15-foot area anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, College

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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

  Basketball, Player, Want

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• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

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• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Teaching, Thinking

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• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, People, Use

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• 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

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

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• Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Mean

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• 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.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

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• 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, Fundamentals, Court

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• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Games

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• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball

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• 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

  Basketball, Teaching, Games

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• You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Games, Today

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• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Magic

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• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Athlete, Thinking

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• I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Play, Fundamentals

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• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, Play

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• The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Fashion, Real

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