Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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

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

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

“I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My ambition is to be remembered as a writer, a historian, a poet.”

“Your mind is what makes everything else work.”

“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.”

“Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth.”

“You can't win unless you learn how to lose.”

“Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can't be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.”

“A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.”

“My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.”