I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALBeing that I’m a tropical black man I don’t get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That’s why they call me Sasquatch. There’s no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.
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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’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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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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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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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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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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Everything happens for a reason.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.
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