Quotes about basketball
basketball lakers buying
I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball years eight
In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball athlete given
I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball people skins
That's what I do. I get in and get under people's skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me - and that's all that matters. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball growing-up want
I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball dad school
In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball tired years
I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball running thinking
When you've got a guy that's going to look for you, you run. A lot of people think I can't run, but my thing was I wasn't going to be running if you're not going to throw it. I know Nash will throw it. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball loses dies
Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball personal-opinions lakers
My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball team media
We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball years games
I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball president
I'm George Bush. I'm the president. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball baby nba
I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball wade lakers
Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball lakers assassins
I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball team focus
We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball lakers
He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball lakers benedict-arnold
How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says? Shaquille O'Neal
basketball recovery able
Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time? Shaquille O'Neal
basketball hands order
I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball eight play
Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball brother kids
He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball men say-anything
I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball summer people
This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball team play
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. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball couple police
I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball persons
I'm a very quotatious person. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball sexy
That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball bmw years
They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball years people
I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball dont-like-me ifs
If you don't like me, there must be something wrong with you. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball photogenic knows
You know, I'm very photogenic. Shaquille O'Neal