Famous Quotes

Quotes by Kareem Abduljabbar

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
• 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.
• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
• I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
• 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.
• I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
• 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.
• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
• 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.
• 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.