A Quote by Shaquille O'Neal

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

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Shaquille O'Neal
American - Athlete
Born: March 6, 1972

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

Serge Ibaka

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Chuck Daly

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Eric Williams

Well, I tried to play defense. But when they did call a foul on Shaq, I tried to make sure they called a foul.

Vlade Divac

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

Allen Iverson

Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.

Avery Bradley

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

Mike Krzyzewski

When you first come in the league as a big man, they tell you to be physical down there. No layups, all that kind of stuff. So you have to buy into it, because you think it's going to get you more playing time. But it really just gets you more foul trouble.

Derrick Favors

I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.

Justin Cole

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Oscar Robertson

I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

Robert Horry

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

Jeff Van Gundy

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.