I don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALExcellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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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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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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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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There’s no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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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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My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
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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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Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that.
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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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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.
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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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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
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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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I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
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