Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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 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.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don’t relate to.

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.