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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."
"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."
"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
Explore more quotes by Oscar Robertson
"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."
"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
"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 was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
"You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him."
"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."
"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."
"We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team."
"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."
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