Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I think by me playing inside-out, it's really been opening up that 3-point shot for me.

All truly great shooters - Dale Ellis, Larry Bird, Craig Hodges, Chris Mullin - we always believed that we were the best shooters in the world.

I spend countless hours each and every day after practice doing form shooting. You know, coming in on off days to shoot.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

I do realize that it's important to be a threat at the 3-point line.

I've always thought I could shoot from the outside.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

Your big has to be able to make 'em pay from the perimeter.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.

I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.

There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best school that I could get into. Luckily, I had very supportive parents. I went to a conservatory that is basically drama school. You take one English class and one history class for four years but you don't take any other science or anything like that. It's strictly, from 7am until night, all acting. It's a lot. Some people find it too much, but for me I was preparing for a career and I never really looked back.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.