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.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALDo a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer.
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I told him I’d think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.
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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.
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The problem with kids these days is they don’t have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.
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We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
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I don’t think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me – Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura… It’s not that I blame him, I just wish he’d go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don’t whine. When he whines, that’s when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.
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He’s the president. I’m the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.
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A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I’m going to say, ‘ouch.’ If I pinch your right nipple, you’re going to say ‘ouch.’ A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.
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Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.
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My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
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I’m going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year – I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
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Being that I’m a tropical black man I don’t get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That’s why they call me Sasquatch. There’s no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.
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Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I’m the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.
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I don’t know how it is for you earthlings, but where I’m from, strength is mental.
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.
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