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.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI’m still here. I’m a force to be reckoned with… you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot.
More Shaquille O'Neal Quotes
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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.
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I’m a very quotatious person.
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(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can’t stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren’t too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
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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.
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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 endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don’t eat Wheaties, so I can’t do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I’d take it right away. Apple Jacks, I’d be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.
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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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You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
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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.
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They asked me when I was out there, ‘Why do you want to be traded?’ I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That’s backwards, man.
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Stay out of the gentlemen’s clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.
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Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage,
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Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.
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The only person who can really motivate you is you.
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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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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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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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I know how to turn the bad into good always.
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I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
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Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.
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When I come back, we’ll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.
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I just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’
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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.
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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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