Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

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.

God knows when you need what.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.

Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings

My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.