Quotes By Shaquille O..Neal

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

One lucky shot deserves another.

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

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.'

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.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

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

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

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

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

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.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

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

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

I just want to keep people entertained.

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

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.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

I have never been a shooter.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

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.