Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

• Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that’s how I am. I’m the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

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• I’m short and to the point.

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• I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

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• I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.

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• Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O’Neal.

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• 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.

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• My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don’t take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

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• Nobody’s going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

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• Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O’Neal.

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• My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don’t take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

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• Nobody’s going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

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• One lucky shot deserves another.

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• Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

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• That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem – hard to figure out. A lot of people really don’t know the Pythagorean Theory. They don’t make them like me anymore. They don’t want to make them like that anymore.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We’re just going to come out and play. We know that we’re supposed to win all the games, but if we don’t, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

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Shaquille O'Neal (59)

Birth:	6th March, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player, Television Producer, Singer

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