top of page
Exlpore more Money quotes

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
Explore more quotes by Oscar Robertson

"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."

"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."

"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"

"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."

"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."

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

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