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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
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Oscar Robertson
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 24
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Oscar Palmer Robertson
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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
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
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
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
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
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
Oscar Robertson
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
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
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
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
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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
Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
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 think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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
