Quotes from Shaunie O'Neal

I feel respected in the back of my mind.

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

I'm not going to put them all in a box and say they all cheat. There are some good guys and I have met some good guys that play basketball.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

I don't know Ayesha Curry.

If someone at VH1, the powers that be, said, 'Shaunie, we want you to completely do your family show,' would I do cartwheels on over to it? Absolutely, because that is probably the most fun I've ever had shooting anything ever so I would totally be fine with that and just do my EP but, yeah.

I'm a mom of two girls. And my daughters see me... I never want to show them anything that I wouldn't want them to represent as a black woman.

I'm never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.

I'm coming out of a long term marriage and I don't want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick.

It's a good feeling to know that I'm able to give my kids more and be a better person to be around.

I mean, hell, when I pitched 'Basketball Wives' I was still married and I had no intentions of being on the show, I just was producing it and creating it, and that was it.

It was important for me to have other outlets outside of 'Basketball Wives' to represent myself and who I really am and what I really would like to put out there.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

In Shaquille's mind, I think I'm always going to be his wife even though that's not the case. The love is always there and he's one of my best friends. We have a great time together and our kids love us just being a family.

You don't take a reality show and make it a movie. At least I wouldn't.

I think a lot of people can come across looking messier than they are, but that's what reality TV is unfortunately.

Don't go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

It's a crazy world, and I just want to remain true to myself, if that means I remain true to my core group of friends that I've had for umpteen years and being a mommy.

I'm the black Demi Moore.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

It's not ok to make up stories about someone's life and you haven't even spoken with them.

I have older boys and two of them are driving which is scary to me just because of the police nowadays.