<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"><font size="1">Question: Are you leaving the Lakers with a bad taste in your mouth? Answer: I'm not leaving with a bad taste in my mouth because I brush my teeth every morning. [Everyone laughs.] Like that answer? No, of course not, I understand that most of the stuff that's done in organizations like that one is all business. You got to know how to handle business and you've got to know when it's personal. And it can't ever be personal. It's just business so they did what they had to do and I do what I have to do?. The worst thing was leaving my good friends and people I hung out with out there in California. But they all got money so they can jump on a plane. Q: How about being the Lakers' second priority? A: I really don't worry about it because this life is not a real life. It's a job. It won't last forever. It's a fun job but it's not real life?. When I go home, my beautiful kids and my beautiful wife, they let me know I'm priority and that's important enough. Q: What do you weigh? A: I weigh 330,000 pounds. I weigh 335. But Pat [Riley, Heat president] told me he wanted me slim so what I did this summer, I just laid off the weights. No weights this summer. My other summers have been weight, weight, weight?. Of course, when you get a guy like me with a high number, you automatically equate it to fat. I've always been the sexiest seven-footer in the NBA. For 12 years running. But this summer, no weights, all cardio. Got that down to 335 and hopefully by the end of training camp, be 325, 330. Q: Will you lose strength? A: Strength is mental and there's nobody mentally stronger than me. I'll beat you up right now if you want me to. Q: Do you regret it didn't work out with you and Kobe? A: No. Not at all. Q: Does it feel different, being here instead of Los Angeles? A: I'm the biggest, sexiest guy in every town that I go to. Even when I get back to L.A., I'm going to be the biggest in that town too. It's just that I'm used to it?. Some people got it, some don't. Q: Are you looking forward to the Christmas game against the Lakers? A: Believe it or not, it's going to be just a regular game to me because I have more important things to do on that day. Obviously, I have to take care of my own children but I have to take care of 5-10,000 other children. Going to the 'hood, like I always do, and passing out toys. I'm going to bring snow to the neighborhood, as I have. Then I'll just go and play a game. Certain things are more important than others and for me, ever since I've been in the NBA, on certain days, certain things are more important than the game. Like, there are a lot of kids who won't get anything on Christmas but, hopefully, I can reach, like 5-10,000 with toys. Good toys, not just little bags. I'm talking Sega, bikes, scooters, computers, clothes, sneakers. That'll be more important to me on that day than any game. Q: Were you disappointed Bryant told police you spent $1 million to hush up women? A: It's not disappointing to me. It's actually kind of funny to me that I'm down here doing my thing. I'm on the beach, butt naked, trying to hang out, and my name comes out. I made comments last week. I'm not going to readdress it. It's not important to me and if it's not important, I don't think it's something that I should address, now or any time in the future. But if you sit back and look at everything that's been going on, everything that's been said, it's actually funny. Q: What do you think of Dwyane Wade? A: He has the all-around game that all guards should have?. I was downstairs, playing with D-Wade, and he went to the hole and he threw a pass and it hit me in the face. He said, "You got to catch that." I said, "Well, I'm not used to getting those passes, buddy." </font></div> Bryant and O'Neal Take It Coast to Coast Shaq ready to open training camp with Heat
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Jurassic:</div><div class="quote_post">That last comment was definitely a shot at Kobe.</div>He's for real though, he did get hit in the face from a pass. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">And O'Neal, being O'Neal, talked of the time Wade drove the lane in a workout, passed him the ball -- and it hit him in the face. "He said, `You've got to catch that,'" O'Neal said. "I said, "I'm not used to those passes, buddy.'</div>He thought Wade was gonna score but he passed it to O'Neal and it caught him off guard. This is a good thing because if it caught him off guard imagine what it's gonna do to the other team's defense. It makes us more unpredicatble.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Jurassic:</div><div class="quote_post">That last comment was definitely a shot at Kobe.</div>He's for real though, he did get hit in the face from a pass. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">And O'Neal, being O'Neal, talked of the time Wade drove the lane in a workout, passed him the ball -- and it hit him in the face. "He said, `You've got to catch that,'" O'Neal said. "I said, "I'm not used to those passes, buddy.'</div>He thought Wade was gonna score but he passed it to O'Neal and it caught him off guard. This is a good thing because if it caught him off guard imagine what it's gonna do to the other team's defense. It makes us more unpredicatble.
Shaq really doesn't look big at all in those pictures. Mabye Dwyane and Eddie grew a couple feet during the offseason?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting heatfan83:</div><div class="quote_post">He's for real though, he did get hit in the face from a pass. </div> Yeah I know....but he was taking a shot at Kobe with his comment about "I'm not used to getting those passes". He's saying that his former guard (Kobe) didn't pass him the ball enough.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting heatfan83:</div><div class="quote_post">He's for real though, he did get hit in the face from a pass. He thought Wade was gonna score but he passed it to O'Neal and it caught him off guard. This is a good thing because if it caught him off guard imagine what it's gonna do to the other team's defense. It makes us more unpredicatble.</div> Not really, when a guard drives toward the basket he can either pass it off or try to score. I would hope any defense anywhere would be prepared for that.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Jurassic:</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah I know....but he was taking a shot at Kobe with his comment about "I'm not used to getting those passes". He's saying that his former guard (Kobe) didn't pass him the ball enough.</div>No he's not man I have the interview on video he says that when a player drives he's accustomed that they usually finish off the play (if he hadn't said that than I would agree that it would be a shot at Kobe). Please let's try and cut down on the Shaq vs Kobe or atleast keep it to one thread and try not to misinterpret the player's words to make it seem like they are dissin each other. Anyways, Shaq reported to Training Camp at 335 but his bio says hes 325 <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Dr. H.H. Holmes:</div><div class="quote_post">Not really, when a guard drives toward the basket he can either pass it off or try to score. I would hope any defense anywhere would be prepared for that.</div>I would hope so too but it caught one of the best NBA players that has played for one of the best NBA teams in the past 5 years off guard.
Has Shaq stopped losing weight? He's been at 330 for a while now. I thought he was going to try to get down to around 320.
