Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

• 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.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Education, People

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

• 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

  Life, Motivational, Success

• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Guy

• When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, Coaching

• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Children

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Islam, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Children

• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Mind

• 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.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Emotional

• I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Race

• I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Heritage, Slave

• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Home

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, People

• Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Basketball, Sports

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Spiritual, Political

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

• I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Lakers

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

• You play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Play

  "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Effort

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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