Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.

No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.

I'm not really worried about my numbers now as a 36-year-old. I'm not trying to be the first, experimental case of a 36-year-older trying to maintain his numbers, especially when I'm on a team like this. Can I do the same stuff I could do when I was Amare's age? Of course not. I'm not going to even try. However, I feel that I'm the baddest 36-year-old out there.

I'm going to be looking to get out like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens.

I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.

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

The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.

I'm a mama's boy above all.

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

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

I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.

They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get anything. So I don't want any other kid to feel like that.

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

Tell them it was a foul.

To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

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.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.

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 was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.

We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.

Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.

It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.

When I retire, I'm going after his job. If I don't make sheriff, I'm going after his job. He's not that good. You can quote me on that.

He's got a ring, so I'm taking home the trophy.

I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.