I’m the first player in history that doesn’t want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI’m going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year – I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
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I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don’t know about my wrists is my wrists don’t go all the way back.
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As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.
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I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
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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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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 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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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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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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Stay out of the gentlemen’s clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.
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I don’t know how it is for you earthlings, but where I’m from, strength is mental.
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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.
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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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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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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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