Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win.
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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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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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I’m a very quotatious person.
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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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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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You know, I’m very photogenic.
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Now that I’m an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don’t go to the gentlemen’s clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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I don’t know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don’t know.
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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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I told him I’d think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.
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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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I really get motivated when I have doubters.
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I’m going to be on a mission. I’ve handled my personal vendettas and handled them well.
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That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.
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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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I don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.
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When I come back, we’ll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.
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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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Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.
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I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.
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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 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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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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The stats win nothing. I’m still sexy. I’m still great.
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