Oscar Robertson Quotes

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.

Oscar Robertson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 24, 1938

Topics

WorldFreeLearnYouPlayBox

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

Jim Moran

BestPeopleAmericanI CanPossible

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

John Baldessari

LifeGodThank GodKeyMy LifeWant

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

John Sandford

PeopleTryingKindWriteOutSit

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

Amish Tripathi

HappyFeelI FeelBankerHappier

I was with top CEOs in 2009, and they were clearly shaken. Top leaders of Wall Street and elsewhere, shaken. The ones at the top did get by because if they are seeing a decline somewhere, there is also growth elsewhere, like in emerging economies.

Shiv Nadar

GrowthSeeingWallStreetTopGet

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

Mike McCarthy

SuccessLosingPeopleMePerception

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

Jason Blum

PeopleThinkMoviesRealSeeScared

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Derek Bok

HappinessGoalCountryIndiaFirst

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

LifeManWhateverWebHeHimself

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

GratitudeFeelLikeTowards

Only in 1999 and 1984 have we seen a persistently strong dollar and strong risk appetite harmoniously co-exist.

Anthony Scaramucci

StrongRiskDollarSeenAppetite

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Anthony Hopkins

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