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Oscar Robertson

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

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Donna Grant

"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."

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Donna Grant

"I have no desire to coach basketball."

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Donna Grant

"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."

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Donna Grant

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."

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Donna Grant

"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."

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Donna Grant

"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

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Donna Grant

"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."

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Oscar Robertson
"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation."

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

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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."

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

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Oscar Robertson
"But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them."

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

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Oscar Robertson
"When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player."

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Oscar Robertson
"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."

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Oscar Robertson
"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!"

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Oscar Robertson
"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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