As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALThere 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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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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Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.
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Stats don’t matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I’m happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose.
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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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They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn’t always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.
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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 just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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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’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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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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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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I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
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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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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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All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.
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