Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

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

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

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That...

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

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the a...

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

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are mi...

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

Islam is about finding your own space.

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

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. ...

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you p...

Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced...

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have ...

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. ...

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

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was ex...

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's w...

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succ...