Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I definitely want to be, long time down the road when my career ends, whenever somebody mentions a top-five center or top-five power forward, they always got to mention my name. That's how I want to be remembered.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

Great men have this in common with the Divinity that they never die entirely. Their spirit survives them.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

Kobe is Kobe. He is one of the best to ever play this game. Given the opportunity, he can embarrass you.

The Lakers have figured out how to win in every era.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.

Basketball saved my life.

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.

I think I'm changing the game. In that sense, I'm what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don't get me wrong: I don't necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he's going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.

Nas is truly one of the greatest lyricists to ever come out of Queens, which has produced more great MCs than any other borough. He's one of the greatest MCs of my lifetime and in the world. He's also a friend.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

Didier Drogba has been an inspiration to all of us in the Ivory Coast national team. He is a great motivator for all of us - and some of the talks he gives are like a president trying to motivate his country. It is not just what he does on the field - but also all he does for all of our people off the field.

I don't want anybody to be like me. By the end of my career, I don't want to hear talk of another Myles Garrett.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.

I'm not just here to get a paycheck and leave. I'm here to be one of the greatest basketball players to ever play.

I've done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.

In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.

There will be a player greater than me.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.