Quotes about basketball
basketball games way
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball games nerves
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
basketball jobs work-out
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
basketball night play
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.
basketball bigs
I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
basketball games pythagorean-theorem
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.
basketball miami-heat fans
The Miami Heat has the best fans.
basketball winning want
We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
basketball winning games
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.
basketball winning player
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.
basketball baby thinking
I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.
basketball fighting thinking
I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.
basketball best-coaches coaches
Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had.
basketball team thinking
On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.
basketball jobs men
It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking good.
basketball athlete thinking
I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
basketball atmosphere miami
I love the Miami atmosphere.
basketball nba dominant
He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.
basketball nba feel-good
It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.
basketball president want
He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.
basketball play monkeys
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
basketball six assassins
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
basketball men bigs
I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.
basketball age demise
The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.
basketball men media
I'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. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.
basketball math years
I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?
basketball
Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.
basketball player thinking
I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'
basketball player stuff
I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.
basketball names league
If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.
basketball president may
I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.
basketball guy wanted
Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.
basketball book incense
Incense. Books. Just weird.