Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

Hakeem Olajuwon

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  

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• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

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• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

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• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

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• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

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• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

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• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

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• When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

  

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• It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

  

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• My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom