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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
Isis
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Christianity

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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.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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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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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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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 saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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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 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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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.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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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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Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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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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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 think I really benefited from going to college.
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My biggest resource is my mind.
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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