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

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

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 don't know why we play so badly one night and so well the next. I don't know.

[O'Neal didn't let the rebuke go unnoticed.] 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.

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.