American - Athlete | April 16, 1947 -
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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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.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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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.
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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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