Kareem Abdul-Jabbar /Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr/ quotes Born: 04/16/1947 Country: usa

• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) [mind]
• Your mind is what makes everything else work. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) [mind]
• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) [team/team]
• A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Center is a very tough position to play. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I wanted to play baseball! (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

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