I’m ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I’m one and Tim Duncan is the other.
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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My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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Being that I’m a tropical black man I don’t get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That’s why they call me Sasquatch. There’s no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.
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I don’t take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
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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 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 don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.
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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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Pluto is not a planet, but I am.
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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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I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist.
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I think I’m the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, ‘That’s barbecued chicken down there.’
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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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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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My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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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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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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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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When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.
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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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If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.
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Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.
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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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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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