Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes - Page 4

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• We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Selfish, Guy

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Jobs, Fun, Airplane

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• I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Light, People

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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

  Basketball, Thinking, Black

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• But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Song, Party, Sunshine

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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.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Controversy, Fray, Objects

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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• You play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Play

  "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Moments, Middle

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Cells, Blood, White

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• I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  August, Years, White

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spring, School, Italian

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Warfare, Human Nature

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• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Offended You, Lakers, Acknowledgement

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• In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Different, Modesty

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• I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Baseball, Team, Passion

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Years, Desire

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• People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Fashion, People

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• 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

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• Practices were tough.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Practice, Tough

  "X-Men find themselves in familiar territory". Interview with Mat MacDonald, goxgo.ca. March 11, 2010.

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• The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Lakers, Fans

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• 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.

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• The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Years

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Art, Rap

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