I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

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.

Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

What keeps me going is my children.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.