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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. "
Shaquille O'Neal
Done
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Want
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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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" 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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" My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh. "
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" I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me. "
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" Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural. "
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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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" I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. "
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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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" As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?' "
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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'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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" 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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