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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
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Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
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The saying, Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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One man cannot make a team.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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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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Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.
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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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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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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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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...
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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.
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My biggest resource is my mind.
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Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.
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I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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