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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.

Shaquille O'Neal

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what’s best for them, including me.
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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 don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.
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Believe Come From Know Meal Next Pressure
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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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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If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.
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Call Country Painter People Person Place
Being here feels like I’m out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
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I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
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It’s sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn’t. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don’t.
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I’m going to be on a mission. I’ve handled my personal vendettas and handled them well.
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Go Handle Mission Personal Vendettas Well
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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