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.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALThey 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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I just want everyone to know I’m suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn’t let go.
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The 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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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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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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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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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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Everything happens for a reason.
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Every time that I’ve won a championship I’ve looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said ‘You know what, I’m going to win it this year. I feel that way now.
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The problem with kids these days is they don’t have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.
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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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I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.
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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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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 just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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