Quotes By Shaquille O..Neal

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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?

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

I'm short and to the point.

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.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

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.

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.

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.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

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 Alpo of the NBA.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

One lucky shot deserves another.

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.