Oscar Robertson Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• 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

  Success, Basketball, Sports

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Guy

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, School

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Able

• I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

• 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

• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Jobs, Thinking

• But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Knows

• 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

• The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Tests, Ability

• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Today

• 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

  Basketball, Player, People

• 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

• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Teaching, Thinking

• 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

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

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Play, Fundamentals

• You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Cutting, Games

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Philadelphia

• 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

• 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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