Basketball Quotes - Page 10

• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Teacher, Gangsta

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Games, Preparation

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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.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Cheating, Thinking, Athletic

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Transition, Difficult, Enjoyed

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• 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

  Boys, Race, Long

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Ideas, People, Black

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Numbers

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• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Successful, Scripts, Involved

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• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Jazz, Mainstream

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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

  Thinking, Black, Challenging The Status Quo

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Player, Thinking, Nba

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• I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Thinking, Nba, Jordan

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• I'm not going to disappear.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Disappear

  "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Talkasia Transcript". www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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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.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Children, Thinking, Choices

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Memorable, Boston, Moments

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Careers, Games, Changed

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• Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

  Charles Barkley

  Anger, Doe, Looks

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• My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Hey, Rich

  Charles Barkley (2009). “Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Taken, Being Free, Shooter

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• I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

  Dennis Rodman

  Boys, Want, Toys

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• I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

  Dennis Rodman

  Hair, Attention, Calling

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• I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

  Dennis Rodman

  Dallas, Roaming, Streets

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• I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

  Dennis Rodman

  Vegas, Mirages, Week

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• I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

  Dennis Rodman

  Games, League, Mind

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• I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

  Dennis Rodman

  Games, Trying, Way

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Aug 03, 2016

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