Kareem Abdul-jabbar

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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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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.
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.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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.
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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.

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