Athlete Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.”

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

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

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I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

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

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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…

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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

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Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

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

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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

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I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered…

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I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.

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I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

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I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't…

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We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

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