I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.
As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
I'm a mama's boy above all.
I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
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.
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.
I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.
Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
