706 Quotes by Shaquille O'Neal

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word ‘role’ in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I’m into, it’s real to me. There’s nothing fake about it.

When you flop, that’s just another message that you don’t know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

I’m pretty much able to play any style. I’m not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn’t have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn’t have fell. How he got on the ground, I don’t know. He’s clumsy. Quote me on that. I’m going to get him.

I’m a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

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.

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, ‘I’m going on vacation. If I tell you where I’m going, then it won’t be a vacation.’

Now, if you’re an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: ‘Half-man, half-amazing.’

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.