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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
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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
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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
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
There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.
Oscar Robertson
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
Oscar Robertson
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
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
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
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
Oscar Robertson
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
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
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
Oscar Robertson
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
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
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
Oscar Robertson
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson
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
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
