Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
"My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Boston)
"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
(Related: Choice, Evolution)
"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
(Related: Nature, Cheating, Human nature)
"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Road, Years)
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Equality, Trying)
"My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Islam, Spiritual)
"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Negative, Actions, Students, Teachers)
"I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Islam)
"Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: College, Magic, Play)
"I wanted to play baseball!"
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Play)
"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
(Related: Time, Winning, Difference, Losing, May, Right)
"I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Will)
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: professionals)
"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Sacrifice)
"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
(Related: Mistakes)
"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
(Related: People, Islam, Muslim, Americans, Being, Burden, Challenge, Race)
"I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me."
- 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
(Related: Movies, Mother)
"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Dreams, Basketball, Kids)
"Your mind is what makes everything else work."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Work, Mind)
"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Jazz)
"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Successful, Hope)
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Americans)
"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
(Related: Progress, Race)
"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Hope, Basketball, Coaching, School)
"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Sacrifice, Will)
"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Children, Job)
"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Successful)
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: History, People, Idea)
"Center is a very tough position to play."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Play)
"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Court)
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Work, Preparation)
"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Achievement)
"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Mind)
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, End)
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Man)
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, American, Loyalty)
"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
(Related: Soul, Body, Emotions, Forget, Play)
"You can't win if you don't play as a unit."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Play)
"When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Fans, Ugly)
"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
(Related: People, Positive, Burden)
"The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Career)
"The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Defense, Effort, Job)
"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Home, Attention, Play)