When I come back, we’ll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.
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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It’s LeBron’s team. He’s the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I’m now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that’s what I’m here to do.
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I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
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Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
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Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer.
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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren’t too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
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As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I’ve got to do get my guys going I’ll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I’ll guess I’ll take that. That’s what a leader and a general and a chief of police does.
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I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
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I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I’m not from this planet. Earthlings don’t faze me.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I’d probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one.
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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.
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The only person who can really motivate you is you.
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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.
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When you flop, that’s just another message that you don’t know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
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Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.
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This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what’s best for them, including me.
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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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Stats don’t matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I’m happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose.
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I’ve got a couple of drones. I’ve got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun
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