Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.

I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.

It's the Milwaukee Bucks. Unless they give you good, good money, then go, but you don't leave New York for Milwaukee.

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.

The Orlando Magic is a great organization.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for me to be here... Regardless of my circumstances, I'm here.

I have great respect for Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I greatly appreciate the discussions we had regarding their organization.

I don't know when, or how, but I feel it: Basketball will come back to Seattle.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

Tell them it was a foul.

I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

I will never play for the Miami Heat.

After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.