I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
I wanted to play baseball!
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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.
I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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.
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
