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 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
Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was… — 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
But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since. — 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
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
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
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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