Top 100 Kareem Abdul Quotes
#1. I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#2. I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
John Salley
#3. On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
Magic Johnson
#4. Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
Bill Walton
#5. My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
Dule Hill
#6. Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
Bill Fitch
#7. I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#8. The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#9. I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#10. I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#11. I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#12. 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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#14. This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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#15. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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#16. A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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#18. LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#19. Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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#21. The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
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#22. A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#23. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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#24. Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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#25. 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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#27. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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#29. Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#30. 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 of fashion.
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#32. Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
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#34. I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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#35. The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!
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#37. The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
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#38. I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
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#39. I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
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#41. A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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#43. Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.
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#44. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
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#45. I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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#46. There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.
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#47. When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
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#48. One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#49. My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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#51. When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
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#52. Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.
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#53. I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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#55. What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
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#56. I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
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#59. When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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#60. What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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#61. The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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#62. Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
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#63. 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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#64. Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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#65. I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.
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#66. OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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#67. I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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#68. 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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#69. My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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#70. Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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#71. If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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#72. I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.
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#74. When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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#76. I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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#78. I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.
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#79. The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.
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#80. I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.
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#81. My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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#83. You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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#86. I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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#87. He had breath in him once," he declared. "He is to be treated with respect, no matter the cost." "Now is not the time for empty ritual," Holmes thundered. "Now is precisely the time!" Douglas thundered back. "When we ourselves are empty, it is the ritual that turns us human again.
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#89. 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.
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#90. If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.
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#91. 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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#94. Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
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#95. I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#99. Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.
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#100. I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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