Shaquille O'Neal famous quotes

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Perseverance #Excellence #Habit

The only person who can really motivate you is you.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Winning #Persons

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

#Basketball #Kryptonite

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Success #Basketball #Sports

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

#Basketball #Know How #Knows

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Kids #Parent #Messages

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Winning #Nba

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Winning #Pie

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #School #Night

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Real #Winning

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Combination

My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Focus #Secret

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Morning #Hot

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Team #Rap

I really get motivated when I have doubters.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Doubters #Motivated

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

#Basketball #Believe #Nba

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Calling #Painter

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

#Basketball #Nba #Racist

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Motivational #Basketball #Games

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Team #Practice

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Men #Two

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Simplicity #Lakers

I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Night #Lasts

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Flower #Mean

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

#Basketball #Hero #Lakers

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

#Basketball #Player #Thinking

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Stronger #Faces

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Sexy #Rain

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Offering #Apples #Use

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Pluto #Planets

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Funny #Basketball #Money

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Media #Nba #Yeah

I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Bigs

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Challenges #Bathroom

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Motivational #Basketball #Winning

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Order #Discipline

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Nba #Guy #Stronger

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

#Basketball #Lakers

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #East #Tests

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

#Basketball #Letting Go #Hands

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Stupid #Nba #Answers

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Brother #Kids

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Here I Am #Hierarchy

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

#Basketball #Appreciate #Way

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Believe #Kids

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Men #Play

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Two #May

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Leprechaun #Ready For Change

It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Mistake #Winning

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Men #Nba

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

#Basketball #Team #Prison

Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Dark #Media #Nba

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

#Basketball #Dies #Loses

I know how to turn the bad into good always.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Turns #Know How

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Fire #Nba

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Pythagorean Theorem #Answers

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Fall #Two

It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Kings #Jobs

Get away from my house. What do you want?
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Nba #House

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Growing Up #Thinking

I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Say Anything #Lakers

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

#Philosophical #Vocabulary #Giving

That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don't ask dumb questions.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Media #Nba #Dumb

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Eight #Play

I'm dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I'm not from this planet. Earthlings don't faze me.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Night #Trying

He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Brother #Kids

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Tired #Talking

Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Winning #Average

You know, I'm very photogenic.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Photogenic #Knows

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#People #Righteous

I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Certain #Be Careful

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Player #Said

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Nba #Sticks #Booty

Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Crazy #Men

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Children #Military

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Song #Boys #White

I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn't want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Mom #Mother #Children

The Big Cactus. I will stick you.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Cactus #Sticks

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Good Friend #Winning

I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Fall #Years

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Police #Done

He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #People #Trying

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Moving #Nba

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.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Night #Play

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Media #Nba #Personality

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Thinking #People

Shaquille O'Neal has always been one to speak the truth.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Speak #Speak The Truth

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Son #Winning

Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Sea #Nba

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Ninja #Young

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

#Basketball #World #Conferences

You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Fighting #Men #Nba

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Years #Games

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Greatness #Men

Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Nba #Mind #Tough

I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That's who I am, the old guy with a long beard.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Senior #Who I Am

He is an old glove, but he looked like the old Glove.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Nba #Gloves

Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a matter of fact, Derek Fisher called me yesterday to thank me. If you double me, I'm kicking out to Eddie, who's the best shooter in the East. Or I'm going to give it to Dwyane, or put it on the ground and come bang on you.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Yesterday #Knights

If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Believe #Google