Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes - Page 4

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.