I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.

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.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.