Hakeem Olajuwon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Smart #Player
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Blood #Trying
Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Player #Color
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Home #Childhood
I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Car #Balls
It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Ambition #Giving
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Paradise #Firsts
In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Soccer #Jobs
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Leadership #Sports #Important
I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Want #Kind #Persons
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Space #Type
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Fashion #Joy
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Order #Differences #Long
The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Fashion #Keys #Trying
When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Player #People #League
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Successful #Blessing #Giving
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Soccer #Player #Natural
Iâ€™m shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong,
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Strong #Voice #Shy
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Blessed #Player
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Simple #Simplicity
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Thinking #Winning
I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Atlanta #Steps #Olympics
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball #Country #Home
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
-- Hakeem Olajuwon

#Motivational #Positive #Basketball

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