I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

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.

Just think how beautiful you can be if kindness is your ornament of beauty.

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.