Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

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.'

I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

One lucky shot deserves another.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

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.

I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don't need people to tell me that.

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

It matters in a fatherly way.

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.