I'm a season kind of guy - not the preseason but the regular season. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I just want to say, 'Nice job,' but now let the professional take over. There can only be one me. Uno más… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
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.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share
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