93 Quotes by 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.

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.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

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

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

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

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

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.