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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
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Basketball Coach
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New York City
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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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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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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.
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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 think I really benefited from going to college.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.
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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 think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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One man cannot make a team.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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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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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
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I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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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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