Shaquille O'Neal Quotes About Championships

Quotes about: Championships

• 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.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Player

• The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Numbers

• I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Thinking

• If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mean, Winning

• Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Years

• In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Couple, Games

• Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Promise

• Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Average

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