After being named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 1999-2000 season, Shaquille O’Neal said he wanted to “say something that stood for who I was.” “Growing up with a drill sergeant father … we were always talking about practicing good habits,” he said. Hence, the (misattributed) Aristotle quote – and a new nickname: “Excellence is not a singular act. It’s a …habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”