Top 420 Quotes & Sayings by Shaquille O'Neal - Page 2

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

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 want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

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

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

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I just want to keep people entertained.

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

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

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.

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.

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

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

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.

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 think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.

I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.

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.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

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.

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.

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.

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

I really get motivated when I have doubters.

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

My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.

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

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

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

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.

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'

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

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

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

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.

It's sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn't. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don't. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.

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

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

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

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.

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

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

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.