Shaq Always Said: "I'm Quotatious."

"I said I flopped, but flopping is falling and crying and complaining to the ref. I tried to take a charge. The rules say when a guy comes into your chest and you fall, that's an offensive foul, and that's all I tried to do. I fell, didn't complain, he made a great move, spun and dunked it, but flopping is the wrong choice of words. So that's all I've got to say about that, but again, I despise frontrunners, I despise them. And that's what he is to me."

"Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him."

On the triangle offense:
"Our offense is like the Pythagorean Theorem. There is no answer."

Reporter: "Let's just say that a snake bit your mom right here, right in the chest area. Would you be willing to suck the venom out to win the title?"

Shaq: "No, but I would with your wife."

"If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game."

"It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it."

On the Suns:

"I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That's who I am, the old guy with a long beard."

On his most humbling experience:
"I've never had one."

On the Heat:

Being embraced so quickly:
"That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy."

"After referring to humans as "earthlings" and being asked what planet he is from:
I don't know the name of the planet. The files were destroyed. Actually, my mother recently told me that I wasn't born. I was found on a train. I have a lot of heritage in Texas, but I consider myself a New Jerseyan. I was found on the Amtraks in Jersey City, New Jersey. " (Amtrak actually doesn't service through Jersey City.)

On the Lakers:

Asked about what he would do if Kobe comes down the lane in their first game against each other:
"If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall."

Asked about his former organization:
"I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked."

On playing Kobe:
"I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq."

On his relationship with Kobe:
"My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo."

ESPN: "Do you ever see the day where it would be possible for you to sit down, have a talk with Kobe Bryant?"

Shaq: "Who?"

ESPN: "Kobe Bryant."

Shaq: "You know what I am not familiar with that name, I know a lot of names and I have a lot of names in my head, but I am not familiar with that name. Especially if there is nothing to talk about, I'm sorry I can't recall that name."

"Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich."

Asked if Glen Rice was becoming a distraction when his wife complained of Rice not getting any playing time:
"Yeah, I had some rice with my chicken last night. I wanted some gravy, but gravy was fattening and I'm trying to lose weight."

In a more recent interview, when asked who his best teammate was:
"Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that."

On Free Throws:

"If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason."

"Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right."

Defending himself:
"I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something."

On Greatness:

"But can't nobody (mess) with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective."

"I weigh 330,000 pounds...I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running."

"I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me."

On his BMI, which categorizes Shaq as obese:
"I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up."

"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."

Lastly...let's show a few more quotes on Shaq inventing his own words:

"He awokened a sleeping giant. I know that's not a word."

"They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference."

Flop-ternity. The "flopping fraternity" of players, he says, who fall down when playing defense against him in hopes of getting an offensive foul. Members include Jason Collins, Vlade Divac and Dennis Rodman.

LSU. His college stands for "Love Shaq University" or "Learn Slow University," depending on his mood.

"I was a Laker. Now I'm a Heatenin. Is that a word?"

On Dwayne Wade:
"I know this kid was good, but he's gooder than I thought."

"When it comes to ridiculization, if you can't walk in a man's shoes, you shouldn't ridicule him. I couldn't do that job."

"If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso."

"Tell Yao Ming, 'ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'"

Watching Shaq ever since I have been playing basketball has been entertaining, and yes as a Laker fan, a bit frustrating. But the future Hall of Famer will always be considered one of the best centers to play the game. And one of the best personalities of the league.

There are so many more quotes we can find of Shaq. Whether it's on the Lakers, on Dwayne Wade, Pat Riley, his rift with Nick Anderson or Anfernee Hardaway, the refs, David Stern, Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Brad Miller, the whole Sacramento Kings organization, Charles Barkley, Brian Hill, Jerry Buss...the list goes on! Let's add Stan Van Gundy to that list, and I can only imagine that there are still more to be added to the list.

If I left one of your favorite quotes out, feel free to leave them in the comment box.