Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

(15 votes)   I wanted to play baseball!

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(15 votes)   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.

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(15 votes)   It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

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(15 votes)   My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   I'm not going to disappear.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

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(14 votes)   The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

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

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(14 votes)   When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

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(14 votes)   You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

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