I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.

In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.

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.