Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“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
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“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“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.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“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.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“Music is really something that makes people whole.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“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
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“I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do – get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make – I will be able to maintain my good health and…
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“I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“The ’80s made up for all the abuse I took during the ’70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“Today’s youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn’t take that attitude forward with them.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That’s not normal, even for my age. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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