Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.

The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.

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.

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

You know, I'm very photogenic.

No one calls me out, I'm from LSU.

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

There is no fate, but what we create.