I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

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

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.