Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

American - Athlete Born: April 16, 1947

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

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Good Great Think Sacrifice

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

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Time Winning Do The Right Thing May

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

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Live Islam Way Try

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

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Sports You Win Lose Learn

The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.

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Life Good Health Me

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

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Together Working Together Achieve Go

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

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Achievement Great Group Own

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

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Time Rose Culture Community

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

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Man Team Cannot Make

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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Work Mind Everything Your

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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

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History Game Teamwork Missing

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

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You Way Serious Something

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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Mind I Can Something Ball

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

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Nature Think You Cheating

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

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Circumstances Shot He Off

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

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History Black Book Slavery

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

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You Win Play Unit

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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Me Child Think Parent

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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Sports Succeed See Entertainment

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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Children People Job Parent

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

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You Appreciation Shown Gets

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

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Job Circumstances Try Even

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

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Blur Ugly Sometimes Things

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

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Opportunity School American Dream

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

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Time People Library Start

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

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Dreams Dream Basketball Only

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