"Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.“
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."
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"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to."
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"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
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