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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not going to disappear. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

#Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My health is fine. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Michael Jordan

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I wanted to play baseball! - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Center is a very tough position to play. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I enjoy seeing new places. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your mind is what makes everything else work. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Accomplishment

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

#Working Together

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. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Do The Right Thing

You can't win if you don't play as a unit. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You can't win unless you learn how to lose. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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