I’ve been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play. – Shaquille O’Neal
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. – 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. – Shaquille O’Neal
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. – Shaquille O’Neal
I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me. – Shaquille O’Neal
I’m an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy – at least I think I’m funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself. – Shaquille O’Neal
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. – Shaquille O’Neal
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. – Shaquille O’Neal
The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad. – Shaquille O’Neal
I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata. – Shaquille O’Neal
I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it’s not how you start the date, it’s how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don’t finish the date – you know what I mean? – Shaquille O’Neal
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. – Shaquille O’Neal
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. – Shaquille O’Neal
Being here feels like I’m out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. – Shaquille O’Neal
I don’t believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you’ve changed because now you have money. – 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.’ – Shaquille O’Neal
Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that’s where I would look at them. – Shaquille O’Neal