93 Quotes by Oscar Robertson

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    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.

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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.

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    Just fundamental things – I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

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    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.

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

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

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    We’re all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

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

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

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