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.
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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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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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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I’m a very quotatious person.
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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 day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
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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 very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn’t say that to my face in a dark alley where it’s just me and him and no witnesses.
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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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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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I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
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Pluto is not a planet, but I am.
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As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.
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