Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit … Be in the first group; there is less competition there.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.'

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Golden State. Jimmy Butler brings it every night when I'm out there.

Obviously, you're being evaluated every single week, and you want to perform every single week. It's just going out there and doing everything possible to help the team win.

Managers don't play. We the players play.

To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.

Pushing guys to be the best, that's part of the role I've always taken being a quarterback.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

Fielding is about attitude and wanting to get out there and get it done.