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 I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Athlete, Thinking

• I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, School

• I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

• 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

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

• When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Clothes

• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, College

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Thinking

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Country, Real

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Games

• When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Terrible

• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Way, Coaches

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, People, Use

• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

• 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

  Basketball, Team, Games

• 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

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Block, Play

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

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Knows

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