Man, I don't wanna do what all the other guys do. I don't wanna end up in the booth after the games telling you what I think and talking smack about the guys on the floor when they are a lot better than that. I wanna be different. I don't wanna be known as Commentator Shaq. I wanna be a doctor or something good. I wanna be Dr. Shaq, Officer Shaq, Deputy Shaq.

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.'

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

For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

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

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

I'm playing like Eric Dampier.