Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

I feel like, there's no fair in fighting: you do whatever it takes to win. Obviously, sometimes I cheat to win, but it's not illegal.

I really enjoyed playing Yannick Noah - he was and still is my favourite. In the heat of the moment he was very fair and very physical. He was strong, big and he moved unbelievably well. He was also mentally tough.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

Greg Anthony's a good player.

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I'm the better fighter, I'm the better fighter.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

The best mark of a player is to beat him over a long distance.

I realized at a very young age that I had a gift to do special things with the ball.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

I don't always have to dunk the ball.