Top 420 Quotes & Sayings by Shaquille O'Neal - Page 7

They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.

If you don't like me, there must be something wrong with you.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years - Rudy Giuliani Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

I'm the master marketer.

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.

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.

I'll hit them when it matters.

Coach (Pat) Riley told us on June 8 we'd win the title on June 20.

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

Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

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

I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had...

The Miami Heat has the best fans.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq... the guy on the court. But there is another side to who I am, Shaquille O'Neal. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to explore every part of life. He wants the opportunity to pursue all of his desires. That includes being a part of the music industry as an MC. Music is and will always be a part of who I am.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

Incense. Books. Just weird.

A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one.

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.

I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

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

I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

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.'

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.

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

The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.

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

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

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.

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 think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.

Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).

I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

I love the Miami atmosphere.

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.

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

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.

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.