Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
Author
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
Jr.
Lew Alcindor
Dorm
Dorms
Naps
Practice
Back
Take
Would
More quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I needed to go to class I needed to go to practice I needed to have a life away from basketball.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
