Shaunie O'Neal Quotes

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.

I won't tolerate lying.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

Stop lying about my record.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.