A Quote by Bill Fitch

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Bill Fitch

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Bill Fitch
American - Coach
Born: May 19, 1934

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Bill Walton

I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

John Salley

Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.

Andre Iguodala

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

Magic Johnson

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

Rumaan Alam

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My father, Jimmy Walker, was the first pick in the 1967 draft, but I never met him. He passed in 2007. I found out about him in middle school. I was old enough to understand who he was, where he went to college, and what his game was about. Older players like Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have come up to me to talk about him.

Jalen Rose

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.

Shawn Bradley

Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit back and say the coverage that was done relative to their support was very shallow.

John Carlos

My role models were all men. I grew up - I was a big 1980s Laker fan: you know, the years of Worthy, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and, you know, eight-foot-tall men that I could never emulate, and then these big 300-pound football players.

Julie Foudy

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'

Dule Hill

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move.

John Carlos

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

Vernon Law

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven

You cannot let something deter you from giving someone a rematch unless you are going to retire. If you are going to retire, go ahead, but if not, you need to do what you are going to do. You do not have to keep playing with the game of boxing. If you are going to fight, fight.

Evander Holyfield

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

Sally Jenkins

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