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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
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Basketball Coach
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Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
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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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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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More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
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I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.
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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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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I needed to go to class I needed to go to practice I needed to have a life away from basketball.
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My biggest resource is my mind.
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Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
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I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.
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For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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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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