Quotes By Shaquille O..Neal

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

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

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 tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

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 goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

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

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.

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.

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

I have never been a shooter.

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.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

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.

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.

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

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

I'm a mama's boy above all.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

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.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

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.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.

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.