"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.“

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

posted in Time

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar quote on Time: "I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in ..." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Discover more inspiring quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

DreamsView Quote

"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

AttitudeView Quote

"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

TeacherView Quote

"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

TeacherView Quote

"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."

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

SportsView Quote

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

-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

SportsView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

-Groucho Marx

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

-Bertrand Russell

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

-Mark Twain

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

-Maya Angelou

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

-Tom Robbins

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin