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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 was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.
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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 think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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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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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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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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Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
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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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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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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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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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Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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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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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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