Oscar Robertson Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

I guess people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jump shot was terrible.

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

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

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

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

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

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

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

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

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