Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I'm upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That's unacceptable. If I want to be accepted by Wilt and Kareem and Russell I've got to start playing better than that. Right now I'm still in the class of Hakeem and David Robinson and that's not good enough for me. I want to be out there with the immortals.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

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.

I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.

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

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

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

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.

I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

I... am... the son of Jor-El!

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

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.

He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.

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

We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

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

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.

I just want to keep people entertained.

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.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.

That's what I do. I get in and get under people's skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me - and that's all that matters.

All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.

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.

There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over.

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

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

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

I am a tropical black man.

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.

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

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.