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As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
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Shaquille O'Neal has always been one to speak the truth.
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I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.
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I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
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I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
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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 the master marketer.
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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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It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
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Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?
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As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.
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Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic.
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It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.
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I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.
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I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
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Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
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He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'
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When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.
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It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
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All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.
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I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
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First person who says that to my face, I'll punch you!
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Coach (Pat) Riley told us on June 8 we'd win the title on June 20.
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I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.
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Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.
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I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.
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I know how to turn the bad into good always.
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This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.
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There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.
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We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.
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I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.
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I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
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I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
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We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.
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It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.
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I am a tropical black man.
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He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
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No one calls me out, I'm from LSU.
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Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.
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Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.
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I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.
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My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.
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You know, I'm very photogenic.
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He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.
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I love the Miami atmosphere.
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No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.
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I ... am ... the son of Jor-El!
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I'm playing like Eric Dampier.
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Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had.
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But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.
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I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
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Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.
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If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
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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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Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.
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Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.
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Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
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It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it.
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I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.
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My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.
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I can't remember the names of all the clubs we went to.
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I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
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Get away from my house. What do you want?
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When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
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Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
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I respect the older guys.
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Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to
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Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.
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I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'
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I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'
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Before I became the 'Great Test of the West, I was the 'Beast of the East.'
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A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.
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I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
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I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.
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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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I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
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I'm a mama's boy above all.
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I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.
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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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Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'
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I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.
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I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.
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We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.
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I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.
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It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.
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Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.
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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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Tell them it was a foul.
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I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.
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When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.
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I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little creature next to Shaquille O'Neal.
— Erinn Hayes
There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.
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If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
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And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded period.
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I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.
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