If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go… — 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
Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get… — 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
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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