Shaq Diesel may be in the shop for repairs, but he says he’s not ready for the junkyard just yet.

The MIAMI HERALD reports that O’Neal has brushed off talk that he should retire. The 35-year-old Heat center has been recently sidelined with a hip injury, but he’s not hip to calling it quits, saying he plans to fulfill the final two years of his contract: “I am the son of an army drill sergeant, and when we enlist, we go full term.”

It’s hard to walk (or limp) away from a deal that nets you $40 million over the next two seasons, especially when there’s pricey on-demand porn to watch.

But as his body and stats suffer, O’Neal offers this strange quote about his offensive output: “Whenever my numbers have (declined), it hasn’t been because of humans. It has been (because of) freak injuries.”

A freak is someone who continues to pay to watch the Heat play at the AAA this season, not a chronically arthritic hip.