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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

I'm not going to disappear.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

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

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.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

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.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

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

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

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.

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.

I wanted to play baseball!

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

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

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

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.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

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

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

Center is a very tough position to play.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

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

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

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

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.

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.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

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.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

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.

My health is fine.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

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.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

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.

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.

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

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

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