I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

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.

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful

After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.