Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

"[O'Neal didn't let the rebuke go unnoticed.] He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball, ... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out."

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."

"If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman."

"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."

"But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me."

"Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family."

"I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me."

"I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess."

"I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be."

"I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?"

"I have never been a shooter."

"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that."

"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet."

"I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing."

"I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain."

"Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect."

"Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else."

"That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore."

"We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game."

"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."