Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI 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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If he were on fire, he couldn’t act as if he were burning. He can’t out-act me on the big screen.
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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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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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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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I don’t think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me – Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura… It’s not that I blame him, I just wish he’d go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don’t whine. When he whines, that’s when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.
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They asked me when I was out there, ‘Why do you want to be traded?’ I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That’s backwards, man.
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This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that’s going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.
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But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we’re planning for the parade.
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I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
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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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It’s his show and I’m just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I’m on my way out… I am here to serve your every need, King James.
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Everything happens for a reason.
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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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