I don’t get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time – defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

OK, I’ll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don’t know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I’m not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it’s something we had to prepare for.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I’ve had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The word ‘leukemia’ is a very frightening word. In many instances, it’s a killer and it’s something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you’re going to beat it.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

He doesn’t necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today’s basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Elgin’s game was an incredible performance, also. I don’t think there’s any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe’s range is unreal, and he does it his way.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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