"I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. 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."

-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.”
“Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.”

Source : "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.
“I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.”
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
“I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.”

Source : "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.
“The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.”
“I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.”
“I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.”

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