You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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.
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.
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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.
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
I enjoy seeing new places.
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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