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'NEALI should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game… I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer’s table. Ugly people call ugly games.
More Shaquille O'Neal Quotes
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I’m dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up.
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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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I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
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I think I’m the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, ‘That’s barbecued chicken down there.’
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I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.
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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.
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My wrists are crooked and don’t go all the way back. I’ve been practicing and working on them. You can’t do everything good.
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It’s his show and I’m just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I’m on my way out… I am here to serve your every need, King James.
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I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist.
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The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
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I don’t get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.
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Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up.
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I’m a very quotatious person.
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If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.
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Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.
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