If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

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.

It means something, but it doesn't change anything.

As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. —

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.