When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
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… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which… — 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
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing… — 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
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
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
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share
If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share
