Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALEvery time that I’ve won a championship I’ve looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said ‘You know what, I’m going to win it this year. I feel that way now.
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As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.
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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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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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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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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’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.
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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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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.
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Every challenge you put in front of me, I’ve handled it, dismantled it – ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.
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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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Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up.
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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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Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn’t say that to my face in a dark alley where it’s just me and him and no witnesses.
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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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Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer.
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A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don’t finish the date – you know what I mean?
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I really get motivated when I have doubters.
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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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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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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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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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Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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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 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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