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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
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New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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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 will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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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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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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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.
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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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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 constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
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There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.
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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'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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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget.
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What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
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