Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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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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My health is fine.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Practices were tough.
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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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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.