Quotes By Shaquille O..Neal

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

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?

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

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.

I'm short and to the point.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

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

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

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

One lucky shot deserves another.

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

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.

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.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

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 play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

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.