I'm a mama's boy above all.
When you've got a guy that's going to look for you, you run. A lot of people think I can't run, but my thing was I wasn't going to be running if you're not going to throw it. I know Nash will throw it.
When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.
A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.
I have never been a shooter.
I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.
I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.
In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
I am a tropical black man.
If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.
It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.
It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.
I just want to say, 'Nice job,' but now let the professional take over. There can only be one me. Uno más me.
No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.
He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.
Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.
It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.
