Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.
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 am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist.
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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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All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.
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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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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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Being 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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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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I’m a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.
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I don’t know how it is for you earthlings, but where I’m from, strength is mental.
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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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Talk to the guys that ain’t doing nothing, don’t talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.
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If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.
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It’s sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn’t. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don’t.
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If he were on fire, he couldn’t act as if he were burning. He can’t out-act me on the big screen.
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There’s no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
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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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A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I’m going to say, ‘ouch.’ If I pinch your right nipple, you’re going to say ‘ouch.’ A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.
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I know how to turn the bad into good always.
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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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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I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don’t know about my wrists is my wrists don’t go all the way back.
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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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I’m going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year – I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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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 on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.
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