Kareem Abdul Jabbar Quotes

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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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.

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• You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

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

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• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

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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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• 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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• The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

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• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

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

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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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• 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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• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

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

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• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

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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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• It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

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• In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.

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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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• 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.

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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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