Quotes about basket
basketball running team
We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball order nba
I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.
basketball order nba
We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.
basketball nice nba
One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.
basketball nba house
Get away from my house. What do you want?
basketball believe nba
I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.
basketball president arena
I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.
basketball trying lakers
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.
basketball military moving
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.
basketball lakers raised
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.
basketball stars names
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.
basketball memories names
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.
basketball running wall
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.
basketball lakers buying
I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.
basketball years eight
In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
basketball president
I'm George Bush. I'm the president.
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.
basketball wade lakers
Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.
basketball lakers assassins
I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
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.
basketball lakers
He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
basketball lakers benedict-arnold
How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?
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?
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.