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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 to change up the way you go at a player.
Oscar Robertson
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Oscar Robertson
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 24
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Oscar Palmer Robertson
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More quotes by Oscar Robertson
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
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
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
There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.
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
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
Oscar Robertson
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
Oscar Robertson
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
Oscar Robertson
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 necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
Oscar Robertson
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
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
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
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 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
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
Oscar Robertson
