When I come back, we’ll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI 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.
More Shaquille O'Neal Quotes
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Everything happens for a reason.
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I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
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My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.
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Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
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I know how to turn the bad into good always.
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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.
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I’m a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that’s how I am. I’m true.
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Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life,
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The stats win nothing. I’m still sexy. I’m still great.
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The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.
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I’m dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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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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He’s a jokester, and that’s funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
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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.
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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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You know, I’m very photogenic.
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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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I’m always ready for a change. I’m Irish. I’m a leprechaun.
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I’m a very quotatious person.
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It’s sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn’t. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don’t.
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Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.
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I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.
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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.
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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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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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