Kareem Abdul Jabbar quotes

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

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.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

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

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.

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

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

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

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.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.