Shaq'has Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The possibilities of migrating from an economy based on owning to one based on sharing are limitless.

Jay Samit

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

Hakeem Olajuwon

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

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics that is more sophisticated.

Steven Pinker

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

Jerry Only

#7. 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

#8. I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Someday I intend to read all those books I've written.

Dan Quayle

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

Kobe Bryant

#13. I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

G. Gordon Liddy

#14. 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

#15. I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing ... I just liked the way he played.

Charlie Watts

#16. Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

Shaquille O'Neal

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. (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

#27. My parents had always been accepting of homosexuals and had supported their fight to be treated as equals, but it was different when it was your own son.

Sloane Kennedy

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

Chris Rock

#29. Whatever happened to preparations A through G?

Steven Wright

#30. With a most intent and searching gaze

Charles Dickens

#31. 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

#32. Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#33. Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Craig Venter

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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