Quotes from 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.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

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.

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

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

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.

excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

I can't remember the names of all the clubs we went to.

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.

This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.

So, listen, I drive from coast to coast, and this (expletive) is flat to me. I'm just saying. I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, "Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie." What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way of saying nobody's perfect.

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.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

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

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.