“Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.”
Music
“Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.”
MusicAll Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.”
Education“The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.”
Health“You can't win unless you learn how to lose.”
Sports“My health is fine.”
Health“I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.”
History“I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.”
Dreams“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.”
Nature“What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.”
Positive“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.”
Time“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.”
History“A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.”
History“I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.”
Family“I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.”
Hope“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.”
Time“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.”
Sports“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.”
Movies“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
Teacher“I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”
Home“Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.”
Equality