Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You play with your soul as well as your body.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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 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

I wanted to play baseball!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I try to do the right thing at the...

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

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

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

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

Josh Peck

I play a lot of basketball.

Josh McDowell

There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

Josh Turner

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Leigh Steinberg

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Kurtis Blow

Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

John Chaney

I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Og Mandino

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.