The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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
I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I would love an extension, who wouldn't? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I'll sign it right now. I won't… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny. — 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 Image
And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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