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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 24
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Oscar Palmer Robertson
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More quotes by 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
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
Oscar Robertson
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
Oscar Robertson
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
Oscar Robertson
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
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
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
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
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.
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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
Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
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
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
