Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I didn’t say anything. Got nothing to say. I’m a married man; I don’t need a relationship with another man.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

52. “As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

53. “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

54. “I love the Miami atmosphere.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

55. “They won’t talk to you because I’m undercover.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

56. “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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

57. “Word has it, they think I’m an old man, and they’re not gonna double me. My message is that I’m the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I’m the baddest at 35.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

58. “But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

59. “I don’t listen to people who can’t do stuff that I do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

60. “I’m George Bush. I’m the president.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

61. “I’m like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

62. “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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

63. “When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I’m gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

64. “I think the new ball is terrible. It’s the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It’s terrible. It’s like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

65. “The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn’t want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

66. “If they want to play football, we can play football.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

67. “Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn’t I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?”

— Shaquille O'Neal

68. “Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

69. “I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

70. “I’m one year older, one year sexier – one more, baby. For me, it’s all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We’ve got to beat whoever is in our way.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

71. “About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it’s one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

72. “A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I’m going to say, ‘ouch.’ If I pinch your right nipple, you’re going to say ‘ouch.’ A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

73. “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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

74. “I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I’m a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

75. “I’m like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities – I’m proven to be good. I’ve still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

76. “Well, I don’t remember all the names of all the clubs we went to.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

77. “One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, ‘This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.’ I’m like, ‘Nice to meet you.’ I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

78. “I’ve been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you’ve got a big, sexy, beautiful man that’s up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you’re going to automatically think it’s fat.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

79. “I’m not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I’m not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there’s going to be trouble.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

80. “My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don’t take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

81. “This is a tough game. There are times when you’ve got to play hurt, when you’ve got to block out the pain.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

82. “I’m a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

83. “Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn’t say that to my face in a dark alley where it’s just me and him and no witnesses.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

84. “That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem – hard to figure out. A lot of people really don’t know the Pythagorean Theory. They don’t make them like me anymore. They don’t want to make them like that anymore.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

85. “If you don’t like me, there must be something wrong with you.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

86. “I’m a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I’m an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I’m here for him.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

87. “We’re focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it’s not good enough to get you fat. We’re trying to get fat.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

88. “As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

89. “I’m getting older. I’m getting sexier. I’m getting meaner. I can still do what I do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

90. “Why did it happen? The big dog got fed. And when the big dog was fed, the little dog even got some meat in there, too. Big dog owns the domain, but the little dog can go wherever he wants.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

91. “Jealous punks can’t stop my dunks.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

92. “You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn’t do without me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

93. “I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I’m very intelligent when I speak.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

94. “It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don’t ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

95. “That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

96. “I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn’t want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

97. “There’s no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

98. “The Spurs are a great WNBA team.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

99. “He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he’s just trying to get into certain people’s heads, but it won’t work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can’t get in my head. He’s a crybaby.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

100. “Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.”

— Shaquille O'Neal