"I'm the type who sets good examples and stays out of trouble, but I never set myself up for perfecticity -- for being perfect. I'm what I like to call a real model -- I'm real, I tell the kids what time it is, and I tell them, 'Yo, don't try to be like me, try to be better than me and stay out of trouble.'"

-- Shaquille O'Neal, Aug. 11, 1998