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

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

" 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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" Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA. "

" I'm a mama's boy above all. "

" 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. "

" I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy. "

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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. "

" I have never been a shooter. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I do what I do. Always. "

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Always

" I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. "

" Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small. "

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Look

Myself

" If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. "

" We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing. "

" This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. "

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

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Strong

" 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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Slow

Numbers

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" I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this. "

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

" 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? "