Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Now, if you’re an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: ‘Half-man, half-amazing.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

152. “Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I’ve always wanted to measure myself against the best.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

153. “There will be a report coming out, and my name will be on it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

154. “I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

155. “In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

156. “Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won’t make with D-Wade. We can’t let them break us up and we can’t break each other up.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

157. “There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we’re planning for the parade.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

158. “Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can’t afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

159. “I’m known as The Big Baryshnikov.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

160. “He could be dominant – if he played in the WNBA.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

161. “You have to foul me to stop me, period.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

162. “Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

163. “Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

164. “Look up the word role in the dictionary and you’ll see it means playing a part. That’s why I call myself a real model.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

165. “Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O’Neal.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

166. “I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

167. “The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

168. “The Miami Heat has the best fans.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

169. “Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

170. “The Big Cactus. I will stick you.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

171. “You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

172. “Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?”

— Shaquille O'Neal

173. “I know how to turn the bad into good always.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

174. “I’m not the one buying love. He’s the one buying love.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

175. “Everything is done out of respect, whether it’s a cheer or a boo.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

176. “I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I’ll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I’ll add years to your career.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

177. “I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don’t eat Wheaties, so I can’t do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I’d take it right away. Apple Jacks, I’d be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

178. “If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

179. “If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you’ve got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively – 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don’t have me doing something I’m not used to doing. I ain’t used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

180. “You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn’t get anything. So I don’t want any other kid to feel like that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

181. “I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I’m the brigadier general, baby.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

182. “I’m more like a senior adviser so I don’t like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That’s who I am, the old guy with a long beard.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

183. “You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I’m the showman of big men.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

184. “I’m probably going to have to go with Kobester. He’s an assassin with LeBron coming right after.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

185. “A friend tweeted me with ‘The Big Freeze.’ I don’t know about that one. I’ve got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I’ll have one.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

186. “No one calls me out, I’m from LSU.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

187. “First person who says that to my face, I’ll punch you!”

— Shaquille O'Neal

188. “He’s got a ring, so I’m taking home the trophy.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

189. “I blame Riley for my broken thumb, not Matt Geiger. That ain’t defense Miami is playing. That’s just chopping. I have no idea how his team gets away with it. I guess when you’ve been in the league 30 years you can do it. Respect, he gets it – he’s like John Gotti.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

190. “Get away from my house. What do you want?”

— Shaquille O'Neal

191. “My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

192. “It feels good. It’s not bad for somebody who can’t shoot.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

193. “I’m an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy – at least I think I’m funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

194. “My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

195. “If I get that thing down there in that area, that’s 67% lifetime. If you don’t believe me, Google it. I’m on the Internet.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

197. “That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I’m serious.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

198. “I was like, ‘Huh? You want my jersey?’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

199. “I don’t know. I don’t have a fax machine, so I didn’t get that message.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

200. “I’m a season kind of guy – not the preseason but the regular season.”

— Shaquille O'Neal