I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

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.

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.

Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.