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I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.
As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.
Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.
I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.
Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.
Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'
Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.
I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.
I just want to say, 'Nice job,' but now let the professional take over. There can only be one me. Uno más me.
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.
Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.
I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them.
Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'
It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.
It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.
There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.
It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.
I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.
If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.
Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?
As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.
I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'
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.
If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.
If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.
I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.
I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.
If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.
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.
We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.
I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.
I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.
I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.
I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.