Oscar Robertson Quotations

Basketball is basketball.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

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