Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes - Page 7

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

I wanted to play baseball!

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

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

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

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.

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.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

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.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.