The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn’t communicate, which wasn’t true.
The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people’s sports lore.
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
I think I really benefited from going to college.
I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, ‘I might be a star.’
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.
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
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 transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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.
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.
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.