Quotes About Shaq

#1. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

#2. I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Amy Jo Martin

#3. I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.

Shaquille O'Neal

#4. I dribble rhymes like basketball ...
People call me 'E.T.'
What's that, Shaq man?
'Extra Tall.'

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Dikembe Mutombo

#6. Just got one more than Shaq. You can take that to the bank.

Kobe Bryant

#7. Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

Dennis Rodman

#8. 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.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

Oscar Robertson

#10. I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?

Jerry Only

#11. Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

Shaquille O'Neal

#12. I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#13. If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. 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.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

Shaquille O'Neal

#16. 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.

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.

John Amaechi

#18. If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

Shaquille O'Neal

#19. Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check ... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

Chris Rock

#20. (The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Shaquille O'Neal

#21. We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

Chris Rock

#22. I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.

Shaquille O'Neal

#23. There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.

Greg Behrendt

#24. It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

Kobe Bryant

#25. I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#26. I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle

Stephen King

#27. Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

Neil Gaiman

#28. The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric was universal and it quickly coloured all literature. It

George Herbert Mair

#29. He wavin' at you, Dave. Hey, it's that drunk man done fell in the bayou the ot'er night. That man must surely love water.

James Lee Burke

#30. Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#31. I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#32. One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#33. You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Lori Singer

#34. Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#35. We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

Barbara Mikulski

#36. Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Deepak Chopra

#37. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#38. Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#39. Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe.

Henry Mosquera