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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
Author
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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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.
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The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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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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If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
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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.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
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