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

• I'm not going to disappear. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• You can't win if you don't play as a unit. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• You can't win unless you learn how to lose. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

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