Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I’m the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI’m pissed off. ‘Cause I knew I did something wrong. I’ll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.
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(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can’t stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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I’m pissed off. ‘Cause I knew I did something wrong. I’ll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.
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I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.
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My wrists are crooked and don’t go all the way back. I’ve been practicing and working on them. You can’t do everything good.
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A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I’m going to say, ‘ouch.’ If I pinch your right nipple, you’re going to say ‘ouch.’ A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.
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The problem with kids these days is they don’t have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.
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The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I’ve done it, and what I’ve done, and who I am. I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies.
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
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It’s sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn’t. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don’t.
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I really get motivated when I have doubters.
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I don’t get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.
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I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game… I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer’s table. Ugly people call ugly games.
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Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.
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