| Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. Kareem Abdul Jabbar Remarks |
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| He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
| I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
| It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. Kareem Abdul Jabbar Quotations |
| 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. Kareem Abdul Jabbar Sayings |
| You can't win if you don't play as a unit. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
| You can't win unless you learn how to lose. Kareem Abdul Jabbar Quotations |
| 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. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
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| 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. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
| [In his 1983 autobiography,] Giant Steps, ... Either because I was an athlete or because I was black -- probably both -- there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work. Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
