I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

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.

Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it’s still a little grimy.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.” “You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.