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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."

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"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."

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"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."

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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."

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"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."

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"He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing."

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"The devil is the reason for all the problems we have in the society."

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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

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"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"

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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."

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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

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"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

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"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."
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"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."
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"You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today."
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"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
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"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."
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"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."
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"We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team."
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