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

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

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

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

"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."
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"You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things go bad."

"Every choice is limited. That's life."

"If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been."

"Everything is a choice and every choice has a consequence; a good one or bad one! We choose to choose every day, whether we choose not to choose, but it is not all our choices that result in something better! It is not all our choices that result in something lasting! It is not all our choices that result in something fulfilling. No matter what our daily conscious and unconscious choices result in, the lessons from the results of our choices that can help shape our next choices must never be neglected, for they that shall neglect the lessons from the consequences of their choices shall always choose and choose again and again, and in the end, they shall never see any lasting and fulfilling footprints!"
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