Quotes about basket
basketball sticks cactus
The Big Cactus. I will stick you. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball queens kings
I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.
basketball turns know-how
I know how to turn the bad into good always.
basketball opportunity who-i-am
I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq... the guy on the court. But there is another side to who I am, Shaquille O'Neal. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to explore every part of life. He wants the opportunity to pursue all of his desires. That includes being a part of the music industry as an MC. Music is and will always be a part of who I am.
basketball player hands
For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.
basketball bigs known
I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.
basketball player said
I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'
basketball cactus bigs
The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
basketball brother moving
Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.
basketball growing-up character
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.
basketball guy positive-energy
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
basketball tired giving
I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.
basketball baby bulls
When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.
basketball home fake
I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.
basketball beautiful sexy
I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.
basketball lasts lakers
You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.
basketball fax-machines messages
I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.
basketball simplicity sticks
If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.
basketball say-anything lakers
I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.
basketball certain be-careful
I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
basketball winning player
If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.
basketball want beats
I'll beat you up right now if you want me to.
basketball west east
The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.
basketball games people
No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
basketball foul periods
You have to foul me to stop me, period.
basketball son winning
Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.
basketball night trying
I'm dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I'm not from this planet. Earthlings don't faze me.
basketball mom night
I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.
basketball fun benches
Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.
basketball west east
Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'
basketball insult
I take that as an insult, even at 36.
basketball knights yesterday
Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a matter of fact, Derek Fisher called me yesterday to thank me. If you double me, I'm kicking out to Eddie, who's the best shooter in the East. Or I'm going to give it to Dwyane, or put it on the ground and come bang on you.
basketball doubters motivated
I really get motivated when I have doubters.