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Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar

  • It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
  • The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.
  • I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
  • 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.
  • Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
  • 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.