“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. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveSaidDoneKidsGuyGamesWinningStepsNeededRight NowBasketballStep UpKarate Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.” YearsSaidNextWinningBasketballYeahNext YearYou Again Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“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.” KnowsWayFeelsYearsSaidGuyWinningBasketballEthicsChampionshipWork Ethic Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“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.” PeopleTryingYearsSaidFeltBasketballJuvenileDelinquents Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.” IfsSaidBasketballWorkersCommandBeesHierarchyHere I AmGreat FriendWorker Bees Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.” KnowsTryingSaidWantedGuyTurnsNamesStarsWaitingTermExamplePositionBasketballMafiaLakersOld MovieCorleone Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'” SaidPlayerBasketballDamn Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.” WorldNeedsTryingSaidStillsDoneNamesBasketballYeahGetting OldGetting OlderEraseSaid And DoneExpletives Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.” SaidLastsRememberNightBasketballLast NightFlakes Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.” MaySaidFeltLimitsThirdsUpsetNbaQuartersReferee Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.” TryingSaidGuyBasketballNbaSense Of HumorThis Guy Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.” MenWantLooksSaidWifeBasketballMy WifeLike MeStayingNbaBackwardsMarryingMarrying Someone Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.” SaidBasketballAgentsNbaSacramentoFree Agents Book:Shaq Talks Back Source: Shaq Talks Back
“It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.” SaidPlayBasketballNba Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'” SaidLastsFacesPayHellKillingChecksLast TimeTax Day Author: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.'” SaidBigsKnownMediaHabitBasketballMy FriendsMarkExcellenceThis DayPassion For Excellence Author: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.” PeopleKnowsWantSaidHardGamesFiguresTheoryOne DayBasketballLike MeTheoremsPythagorean Theorem Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'” MenWantSaidBigsBornKnownAchieveGreatnessBasketballThrustAchieve Greatness Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.” SaidLevelsMillionsMediumsHeyJuvenileDelinquentsGeniesNewark Author:Shaquille O'Neal
