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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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
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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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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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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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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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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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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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I got all A's and was hated for it I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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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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My biggest resource is my mind.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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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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If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity
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I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend.
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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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