Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

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

Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a matter of fact, Derek Fisher called me yesterday to thank me. If you double me, I'm kicking out to Eddie, who's the best shooter in the East. Or I'm going to give it to Dwyane, or put it on the ground and come bang on you.

I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning

He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

The Miami Heat has the best fans.

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking good.

Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. You all should be spanked for this.

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.

Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?'

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

A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.

Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'

I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

You know, I'm very photogenic.

I'm short and to the point.

I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I'm an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I'm here for him.

I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.

It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.

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

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.