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'NEALI’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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Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.
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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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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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Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.
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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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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 know how to turn the bad into good always.
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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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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.
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You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.
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The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I’ve done it, and what I’ve done, and who I am. I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies.
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I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
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