Shaquille O'Neal Play Quotations

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.

I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

If they want to play football, we can play football.

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.