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" I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be. "

Shaquille O'Neal

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" We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game. "

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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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" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

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" But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. "

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" I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'. "

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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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" When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida. "

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" I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either. "

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" Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family. "

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" I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean? "

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" David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do. "

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" Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! "

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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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" Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. "

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" Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me? "

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" I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet. "

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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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" We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter. "

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" I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain. "

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" Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic. "

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" I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all. "

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" I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata. "

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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'm short and to the point. "

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" My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. "

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