I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

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.

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.