I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.

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.

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!

Let it go and live in the moment with joy.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

I went looking for trouble, and I found it.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

I love you still, Against my will.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.