Oscar Robertson Quotes

I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

That's why football is so nice - it gives us the opportunity to react quickly and learn a lot from a situation, what were our mistakes, and where things went wrong.