I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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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I’m the first player in history that doesn’t want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.
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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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Every 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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Everything happens for a reason.
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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 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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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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Everybody is not going to like it, but I don’t care if they like or not. I’m Bush, so if they don’t like it resign.
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Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage,
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I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it’s not how you start the date, it’s how you finish it sir.
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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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The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
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My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.
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Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.
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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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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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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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There 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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They asked me when I was out there, ‘Why do you want to be traded?’ I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That’s backwards, man.
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Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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I just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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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.
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I would like to be referred to as ‘The Big Aristotle’.
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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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Being here feels like I’m out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
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