Shaquille ONeal Quotes about Basketball - Page 9

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

I've won at every level, except college and pro.

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.

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

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.

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

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.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

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

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.

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.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

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

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.

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

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

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.