I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

I'm a mama's boy above all.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

I'm short and to the point.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

One lucky shot deserves another.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.