Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Robertson

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

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.

Oscar Robertson

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

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

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

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.

Oscar Robertson

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

Oscar Robertson

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

Oscar Robertson

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

Oscar Robertson

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

Khloe Kardashian

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Smalley destroyed us inside. He's a good basketball player with a good feel down in the post. He jumps out of the gym.

Carmelo Anthony

Shawn Marion overplayed it, he reached, and once I saw that, I knew I had a clear shot at the basket once I got my feet set. I wanted to win, even before I got my face smacked. Then I got energy from that, even though Eddie did it.

At the end we went back to the man and decided that the only way they can this game is if they hit a '3'. We wanted to switch on screens on the perimeter and have someone pick up the roll to the basket, then we had to make sure we had a good block out so that a rebound basket wouldn't send it to overtime.

At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.

Taurean Green

That's every team's dream, to get to the Final Four and win the national championship. Just the excitement, the atmosphere. That's what you play college basketball for.

That's a pretty good basketball team. We were very fortunate to win, especially away from home. I thought everyone stepped up tonight with Griffin hurt.

That's Brittany as a basketball player. She goes out and does everything. She's not usually our leading scorer, but if you want somebody to make a big defensive play or get a steal, that's what she does.

The kids played hard. As a coach, that's what you want to happen. We hit some shots (early), forced some turnovers. But they're a good basketball team. They're not here for no reason. They did a good job coming back.

Trent Johnson

The last few games I thought we've been playing better basketball. I didn't want our players to be down or lose sight of how far we've come just because they lost the other night.

Vladimir Radmanovic

The last 30 games, to be honest with you, I don't feel like a basketball player. It's really hard and frustrating, but I tried to stay focused mentally and physically, be ready when I was called.

Eli Manning

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

B. C. Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Ashley Judd

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Mike Krzyzewski

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Mike Krzyzewski

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.