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.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALAnd I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
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The stats win nothing. I’m still sexy. I’m still great.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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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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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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He’s the president. I’m the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.
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When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.
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A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don’t finish the date – you know what I mean?
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I would like to be referred to as ‘The Big Aristotle’.
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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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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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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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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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I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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