Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 7

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

152. “I’m the master marketer.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

153. “I told my wife the other day, I’m the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

154. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

156. “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

157. “In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

160. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

169. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

173. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

175. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

178. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

190. “I’m very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family’s long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

191. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

194. “We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don’t need people to tell me that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

195. “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

196. “I am a tropical black man.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal