Shaunie O'Neal Quotes

It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

Normally when you meet a person you don't like, you might have words with them, but then you walk away. When you're filming a show, you can't walk away.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.