Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
A successful former high school, collegiate, and professional NBA basketball player.
(1947 - )
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
[Brilliant]
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
[Attention]
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
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I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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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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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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