The only person who can really motivate you is you.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI’m going to be on a mission. I’ve handled my personal vendettas and handled them well.
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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’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.
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(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can’t stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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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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There 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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I’m the first player in history that doesn’t want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.
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I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
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Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.
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I told him I’d think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.
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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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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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It’s LeBron’s team. He’s the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I’m now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that’s what I’m here to do.
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If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we’re both going to say ouch.
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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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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’
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No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren’t too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
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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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That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.
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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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You know, I’m very photogenic.
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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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When you flop, that’s just another message that you don’t know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
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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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It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win.
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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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