Quotes

“I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.” Shaquille O Neal

“I have never been a shooter.” Shaquille O Neal

“I just want to keep people entertained.” Shaquille O Neal

“I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.” Shaquille O Neal

“I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm a mama's boy above all.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm short and to the point.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.” Shaquille O Neal

“I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.” Shaquille O Neal

“If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.” Shaquille O Neal

“Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.” Shaquille O Neal

“Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.” Shaquille O Neal

“Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.” Shaquille O Neal

“We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.” Shaquille O Neal

“When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.” Shaquille O Neal

“I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.” Shaquille O Neal

“My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.” Shaquille O Neal

“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.” Shaquille O Neal

“There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.” Shaquille O Neal

“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.” Shaquille O Neal

“David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.” Shaquille O Neal

“For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'” Shaquille O Neal

“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.” Shaquille O Neal

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.” Willie Mays

“I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.” Willie Mays

“Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.” Willie Mays

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.” Willie Mays

“I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.” Willie Mays