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.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I'm not going to disappear.

I'm not going to disappear.

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

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

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say...

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of...

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of...

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

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

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

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

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

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

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters...

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters...

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got...

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got...

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

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

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college...

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college...

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

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

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

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

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that...

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that...

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be...

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be...