"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."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"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
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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."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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