Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

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've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

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

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.