Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

Center is a very tough position to play.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I'm not going to disappear.

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.

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.

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

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

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

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

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

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

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

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

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

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

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

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

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

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

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