Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I try to do the right thing at the...

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“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

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