Top 420 Quotes & Sayings by Shaquille O'Neal - Page 5

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.

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

The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.

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

We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.

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

I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.

It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.

I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.

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

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.

Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

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.

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

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

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Man, I don't wanna do what all the other guys do. I don't wanna end up in the booth after the games telling you what I think and talking smack about the guys on the floor when they are a lot better than that. I wanna be different. I don't wanna be known as Commentator Shaq. I wanna be a doctor or something good. I wanna be Dr. Shaq, Officer Shaq, Deputy Shaq.

I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

I've won at every level, except college and pro.

About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.

Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

Tell them it was a foul.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

First person who says that to my face, I'll punch you!

I am a tropical black man.

I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine

I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.

You're messing up my highlights.

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

I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.

Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.

I'm playing like Eric Dampier.

I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

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.

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

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.

We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.

Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

If they want to play football, we can play football.

My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it.

I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.

Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.

Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to

I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.

It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that.

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.

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

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.

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

There will be a report coming out, and my name will be on it.