Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

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.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.