The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.

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.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.