In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins,… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the… — 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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