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.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALThere 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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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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My wrists are crooked and don’t go all the way back. I’ve been practicing and working on them. You can’t do everything good.
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This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what’s best for them, including me.
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Everything happens for a reason.
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Why don’t you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I’m stronger).
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You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
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You know, I’m very photogenic.
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I really get motivated when I have doubters.
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My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
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There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they’re in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I’m doing stuff like that all over.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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When you flop, that’s just another message that you don’t know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
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I’m still here. I’m a force to be reckoned with… you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot.
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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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I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I’m not from this planet. Earthlings don’t faze me.
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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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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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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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Get away from my house. What do you want?
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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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No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren’t too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
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As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I’ve got to do get my guys going I’ll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I’ll guess I’ll take that. That’s what a leader and a general and a chief of police does.
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I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
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Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.
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The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
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