Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
