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- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to disappear.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play baseball!
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
- Involved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
Center is a very tough position to play.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dodgers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My health is fine.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
- Additional
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020