Quotes from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I enjoy seeing new places.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

I wanted to play baseball!

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

Center is a very tough position to play.

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

Practices were tough.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

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

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

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

I'm not going to disappear.

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

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

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

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.

One man cannot make a team.

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.