Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Acquire knowledge and teach it to the people

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

I think I have made it known that I definitely want to push my knowledge of pass rushing on to the younger players. Any shape, form or fashion that can be done, I am more than open to it.