Shaquille O'Neal Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Leprechaun, Ready For Change

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

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, 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.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Ninja, Young

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

• As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Children, Military

• (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

  Basketball, Appreciate, Way

• The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Success, Basketball, Sports

• They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Morning, Hot

• The Big Cactus. I will stick you.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Cactus, Sticks

• You know, I'm very photogenic.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Photogenic, Knows

• I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fax Machines, Lakers

• I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Believe, Nba

• I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Order

• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Rap

• Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

• I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

• Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Racist

  "Inmate IDs, NBA, Homophobia, Snowballs". www.foxnews.com. January 20, 2003.

• I dribble rhymes like basketball...
  People call me 'E.T.'
  What's that, Shaq man?
  'Extra Tall.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Rap, Men

• There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Brother, Kids

• We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Night, Media

• We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

• If they want to play football, we can play football.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Football, Play

• I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Two, Firsts

• Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Paper, Toilets

• 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.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Night, Play

  Interview with Tacy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

• 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.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Winning

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