227 Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you can possibly be... If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it’s going to adversely affect the things over which you have control.

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn’t fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

At times when I am feeling low, I hear from a friend and then, My worries start to go away, and I am on the mend. No matter what the doctors say, and their studies never end, The best cure of all, when spirits fall, is a kind word from a friend.

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I’ve been shooting it ever since.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it’s really all about a team game.

I like to think about that story sometimes because it reminds me that, although we like to think of our heroes as perfect, the harsh truth is that they became heroes by making mistakes and learning from them. To me, that makes them even more heroic.

Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black – probably both – there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn’t be up to the work.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, ‘I might be a star.’