Kareem Abdul Jabbar Quotes

• I’m not going to disappear.

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• I’ve had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

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• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

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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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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

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• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

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• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden.

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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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• You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.

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• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar (51)

Birth:	16th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member.

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