That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

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.

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

Somebody asked me about this the other day. A young Shaq and a young Penny, the young Shaq's going to take over. A medium Shaq and a young Kobe, the medium Shaq is going to take over. Now you've got an older Shaq and a young Dwyane; you step aside, you let him do his thing and you just do what's asked of you.

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.