There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.