Why don’t you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I’m stronger).
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI 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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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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Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I’m the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.
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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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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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That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.
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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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Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.
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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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I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
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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 just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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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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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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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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