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Shaquille O'Neal Looks to the Future
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NBA great helps kids fulfill their dreams
- Duration 3:48
- Date Dec 19, 2011
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On today's beyond the strange part two of my storage or kill O'Neal recently in Atlanta.
I sat down with Shaq for a 101 interview in front of students in the Martin Luther King Jr.
chapel.
On the campus of Moore -- college.
We discuss his career his future goals and his desire to help children fulfill their dreams.
Brewers grows closer work.
Shaquille O'Neal is one of the many well known stars who appears in the new campaign for the Boys and Girls Club of America.
The theme of the video produced by Oscar winning director Ron Howard and -- -- by Oscar winning actor Denzel Washington is great futures start here.
As a child growing up in a tough neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey the Boys and Girls Club was a safe haven for Shaquille.
A place -- could play free from the dangers and temptations.
Of the streets.
Moment probable working men and woman choose from -- would -- you go in there and stay and to infect.
Those are standard global.
Installed boom boom started -- -- Started doing everything.
Everything that would pave the way to a great future.
Upon achieving his dream of becoming an NBA superstar.
Shaq continues to share -- time and money to help the Boys and Girls Club.
I'm doing there -- over 35 million dollars and portion of global.
What -- you know technology so much because.
-- not a lot of preempted -- do have access to so.
-- -- computers and stuff.
Shaq knows how important it is for minority communities to be able to cross the digital divide.
Access to the Internet can help children gain and education.
-- -- out of poverty more more lower room -- education and when it comes to education check leads by example.
Earning his MBA and now preparing to receive his doctorate degree.
But in that well known -- Shaq style he recalls how tough it was to make the grade for his college entrance exam.
And with the SEC you know when when an error.
-- -- in the big world over want to lose these words.
You know hopeful Brothers were mostly women were so.
Took more -- limestone are still fast mobile me Rumsfeld.
Explain explain why would you don't know if you do just that they into the -- can you see.
-- -- -- -- -- You know -- -- Look at do you consider yourself to be a role model our consumer so to be a real model didn't know -- -- -- role in the dictionary.
What you -- apart and follow -- included four.
For the children and I think on the a move a move passageway.
We'll do Nocioni for murder home board to make it because.
-- -- Other men are 800 on this Tuesday but before they before it appears to my doctor so there's you know saying it's just.
Those who also loses his and you just believe in yourself when you just do it.
You can get a you know not everybody is going to be -- professional actually -- all we're just five minutes.
-- -- -- -- -- Shaquille O'Neal says his advice to young people is to be leaders and not Boller he also adds.
Whatever your dream may be following it won't BC you'll be tested.
But do your best and you can accomplish any thing.
Beyond the during.