Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I’ve always wanted to measure myself against the best.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

152. “I’m the master marketer.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

158. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

160. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

163. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

165. “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

166. “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

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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

172. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

174. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

176. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

178. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

182. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

186. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

188. “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

189. “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

190. “There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

191. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

194. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

200. “I’ll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don’t know what comes after century.”

— Shaquille O'Neal