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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. "

Shaquille O'Neal

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

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" Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. "

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" I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. "

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" One lucky shot deserves another. "

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

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" I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. "

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" And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. "

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" That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. "

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" The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad. "

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" I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that. "

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" Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five. "

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

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" I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship. "

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" Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger). "

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" I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that. "

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" Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them. "

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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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" There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade. "

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" Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect. "

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" My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh. "

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" Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me. "

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

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" I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. "

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" I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money. "

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