Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

— 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…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got…

— 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

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down…

— 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

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

— 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

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

— 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

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

— 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

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar