The Arts/Q&A

Shaquille O'Neal, the center for the Los Angeles Lakers, is a co-owner of Dunk.net.

Q. Do you use the Web?

A. Of course I do.

Q. Do your fingers fit on the keys?

A. I'm a master of one-finger typing.

Q. You flunked gym in elementary school. Is that because dodge ball didn't play to your strengths?

A. I flunked gym because I couldn't climb that rope thing.

Q. How much of Ecce Homo, the Nietzsche book Phil Jackson gave you, did you read?

A. I started reading the first chapter, but books that throw out a lot of names I have to go back and reread. So after the first chapter I didn't read that much.

Q. Can you do a rap about Nietzsche?

A. There's something about Nietzsche that's crazy/ They thought he was crazy like me/ But I'm lazy/ I'm the Shaq man/ Matter of fact, the Shaq attack.

Q. Is it disgusting to guard Patrick Ewing because he sweats so much?

A. I don't even feel it, because I'm too quick for him to guard.

Q. Do you think your free-throw troubles are because Dyan Cannon is in your line of vision?

A. She's hot, but you know who was at a game the other day? Anna Kournikova.

Q. She's marrying a hockey player.

A. Supposedly. But if she meets me, she won't marry him.

Q. That's a lot of confidence.

A. I'll stop that marriage any day.

Q. Who wears more makeup: L.A. groupies or Florida groupies?

A. L.A. groupies. Most of the L.A. groupies want to be actresses, so they always have to come out perfect looking.

Q. What's the shortest woman you've ever been with?

A. Four foot eleven. She was a little mama.

Q. That worked out physically?

A. Yeah.