Kareem Abdul-Jabbar People Quotations

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.

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

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

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

The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.