Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I… — 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
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
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
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. — 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
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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