Oneal Quotes

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. ~ Tommy Rettig

Even if you are poor, you can still receive the inheritances from the King! ~ Jayce O'Neal

This was what I had now. Just this.
I had to make it enough. ~ Eilis O'Neal

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I respect the older guys. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. ~ Jayce O'Neal

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking good. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward to helping USA Basketball regain its status in international basketball. ~ Jermaine O'Neal

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Tell them it was a foul. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I've won at every level, except college and pro. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him. ~ Jack Dorsey

I love the Miami atmosphere. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game. ~ 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 like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me. ~ Patrice O'Neal

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him. ~ Dennis Rodman

We shouldn't even get paid for this game. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Bobcats, they played a heck of a game, but we feel like we are at another level. I felt like we were the expansion team tonight. I'm thoroughly embarrassed. ~ Jermaine O'Neal

If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other allies from the same fate as Sage, it is not that I will not lose battles in the war, it is not that there will be times that will try my determination, it is this: I am the Pauraque's rival. And I shall be the one to watch her fall. ~ Hannah E. O'Neal

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger). ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery. ~ Terry A O'Neal

You have to foul me to stop me, period. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Get away from my house. What do you want? ~ Shaquille O'Neal

A smile can go a long way, but a scowl can go even further. ~ Jayce O'Neal

Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity. ~ Jayce O'Neal

Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful. ~ Patrice O'Neal

He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a very quotatious person. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens. ~ Tatum O'Neal

It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other ~ Patrice O'Neal

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what? ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Sometimes I find it difficult to determine whether or not I'm merely spinning my wheels or making progress. Nevertheless, I must keep moving on until I reach a destination. For I would much rather be in perpetual motion with the promise of reaching some place majestic beyond the horizon, rather than sitting idle alongside a dirt road watching time hurriedly pass me by. ~ Terry A. O'Neal

They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level. ~ Patrice O'Neal

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I know how to turn the bad into good always. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

It's sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn't. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don't. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. ~ Robert Reich

So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly.
"Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms. ~ Eilis O'Neal

In college you learn about college ~ Jermaine O'Neal

Hey,maybe I could have a talk show, since you aren't going to be my June Cleaver anymore. I could call it the O'Neal Hour. Sounds important, doesn't it?" [Butch to Vishous]
"First of all, you were going to be June Cleaver-"
"Screw that. No way I'd bottom for you."
"Whatever. And second, I don't think there's much of a market for your particular brand of psychology."
"So not true."
"Butch, you and I just beat the crap out of each other."
"You started it. And actually, it would be perfect for Spike TV. UFC meets Oprah. God, I'm brilliant."
"Keep telling yourself that. ~ J.R. Ward

I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine ~ Shaquille O'Neal

If they want to play football, we can play football. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you. ~ Terry A O'Neal

I'm a mama's boy above all. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo! ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

The dead did not call to me from the underworlds, but spoke to me from the rustling pine needles. They did not gaze down upon me from the skyworlds, but smiled up at me from a bead of dew trembling precariously upon a blade of grass. They told me I have never been alone. Not for one instant. Every soul is a thread in the fabric of the world. All I must do to see my relatives is gaze into the shining water that sleeps, ~ Kathleen O'Neal Gear

The only person who can really motivate you is you. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both. ~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow

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

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get anything. So I don't want any other kid to feel like that. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be. ~ Eilis O'Neal

Paper Moon didn't bring me love. ~ Tatum O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge. ~ Jermaine O'Neal

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.' ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving. ~ Jayce O'Neal

I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that? ~ Shaquille O'Neal

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

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do ~ Shaquille O'Neal

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself. ~ Tatum O'Neal

He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers been brave enough to mention it? ~ Eilis O'Neal

When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked myself a question: 'How come people like Mike? How come they like Magic? How come they like Bird? How come they don't like the big guys?' So I just throw a little bit of what they were doing. You smile, you act crazy and silly. And I think people like me because I'm different. I've always been a class clown type of guy. It comes natural. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief? ~ Kathleen O'Neal Gear

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Incense. Books. Just weird. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I've got to do get my guys going I'll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I'll guess I'll take that. That's what a leader and a general and a chief of police does. Everybody is not going to like it, but I don't care if they like or not. I'm Bush, so if they don't like it resign. ~ Shaquille O'Neal