This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

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.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.