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All Quotes Collection
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
44
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
54
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
43
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
79
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
45
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
44
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
45
"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."
49
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
54
"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."
46
"My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics."
61
"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."
49
"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."
51
"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."
57
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
66
"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."
47
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
53
"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
59
"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."
67
"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."
49
"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
44
"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."
44
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
60
"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."
54
"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."
83
"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."
57
"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."
53
"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."
51
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
60
"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
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