Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Mind

• Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Basketball, Sports

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

• Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, People

  Interview with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

• Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sports, Pride, Fire

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

• 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

  Sports, Kids, Cities

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