Matters Race Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

“The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.”

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar