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Shaquille O'Neal Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

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

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

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

They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.

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

Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?

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.

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

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.

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

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

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.

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

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

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

You're messing up my highlights.

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

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

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 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.

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

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

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

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

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

I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.

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

You have to foul me to stop me, period.

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.

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.

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

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

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

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

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

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.

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

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

One lucky shot deserves another.

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

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.

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

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

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

I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.

He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.

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

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

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

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

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

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.'

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

I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.

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.

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

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.

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

I can't remember the names of all the clubs we went to.

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.

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.

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

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I dribble rhymes like basketball ...
People call me 'E.T.'
What's that, Shaq man?
'Extra Tall.'

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

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

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.

The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.

I just want to keep people entertained.

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

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.

The Spurs are a great WNBA team.

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

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

I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

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

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

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

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

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.