I know how to turn the bad into good always.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALThe 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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I’m the first player in history that doesn’t want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.
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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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The only person who can really motivate you is you.
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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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When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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I don’t get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.
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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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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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There’s no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
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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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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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My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.
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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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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’m a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that’s how I am. I’m true.
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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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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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I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
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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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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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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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I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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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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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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