He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.' — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the… — 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
(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 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 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
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels… — 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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
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… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says. — 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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