Kareem Abdul Jabbar Quotes

• I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

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• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

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• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

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• Dear Scottie, I have nothing but respect for you my friend as an athlete and knowledgeable basketball mind. But you are way off in your assessment of who is the greatest player of all time and the greatest scorer of all time. Your comments are off because of your limited perspective.

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• Center is a very tough position to play.

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• Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

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• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

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• 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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• A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar (51)

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

About

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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• 1913 - Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr.
• 1902 - Nazim Hikmet
• 1623 - Algernon Sidney
• 1941 - Don Van Vliet
• 1945 - David Pleat

Deaths

• 2011 - Susannah York
• 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg
• 1947 - Victor Robinson
• 1917 - William De Morgan
• 1987 - Ray Bolger