Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

2. “Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

3. “Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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4. “I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

5. “It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

6. “I really get motivated when I have doubters.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

7. “Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

8. “The only person who can really motivate you is you.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

9. “I’m a mama’s boy above all.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

10. “The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

11. “I’ll beat you up right now if you want me to.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

12. “I don’t ever want to grow up. I guess I’m like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

13. “For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

14. “I’m like tax. You’re going to pay one way or the other.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

15. “We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

16. “But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

17. “One lucky shot deserves another.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

18. “Pluto is not a planet, but I am.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

19. “When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

20. “Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word ‘role’ in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I’m into, it’s real to me. There’s nothing fake about it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

21. “Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

22. “I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

23. “When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

24. “I’m going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year – I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

25. “I’m dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I’m not from this planet. Earthlings don’t faze me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

26. “Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That’s because I am the other son of Jorel – Superman.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

27. “I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, ‘I’m going on vacation. If I tell you where I’m going, then it won’t be a vacation.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

28. “I’m not going to go home and drink rat urine.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

29. “Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can’t type that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

30. “I don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

31. “Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!”

— Shaquille O'Neal

32. “My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

33. “Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up. I don’t know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don’t know.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

34. “Tell Yao Ming, Ching chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

35. “You know, I’m very photogenic.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

36. “To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that’s only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

37. “As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

38. “I wouldn’t. I would just go home. I’d fake an injury or something.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

39. “Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I’m the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

40. “You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. You all should be spanked for this.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

41. “Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that’s how I am. I’m the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

42. “They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn’t always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

43. “That’s sort of a trick question, and I don’t have a trick answer. Next question, please.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

44. “If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

45. “I’m a very quotatious person.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

46. “This is my disguise, but it doesn’t work.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

47. “I’m not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don’t have to try to outdo him, I’m Shaq.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

48. “We’re going to do it again next year. We’ll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

49. “Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I’d do it myself. It’s a fun thing. It’s a way for fans to connect.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

50. “I love the Miami atmosphere.”

— Shaquille O'Neal