Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back! — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.' — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
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