I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
— 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
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 and I've been shooting it ever since.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
— 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
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