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I wanted to play baseball!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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
Wanted
Play
Basketball
Baseball
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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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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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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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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I was a baseball fan myself, 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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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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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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