Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

203. “I am a tropical black man.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

204. “I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he’ll be fine.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

205. “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

206. “You’re messing up my highlights.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

207. “They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it’s my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

208. “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

209. “If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I’d probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

210. “I’m pretty much able to play any style. I’m not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

211. “Being that I’m a tropical black man I don’t get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That’s why they call me Sasquatch. There’s no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

212. “I’ve read that same formula, but as an athlete I’m classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

213. “My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

214. “I just said to myself, ‘Damn, I’m a great player.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

215. “I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

216. “I’m the LCL – the Last Center Left. I’ve been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they’re flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

217. “It’s a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

218. “I just want to keep people entertained.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

219. “Finally, I have someone that’s like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I’m on.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

220. “I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever ‘they’ may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I’m going to come out and do what I do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

221. “Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That’s because of me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

222. “I don’t get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

223. “I don’t know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring ’em back, I’d get shocked.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

224. “I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

225. “I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

226. “That’s what I do. I get in and get under people’s skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me – and that’s all that matters.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

227. “He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He’s a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I’ll punch them in their face.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

228. “I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don’t know yet.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

229. “Doesn’t matter. If I would’ve had a beer before the game, I would’ve been drunk. So I don’t believe in ‘if.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

230. “If he were on fire, he couldn’t act as if he were burning. He can’t out-act me on the big screen.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

231. “I’ve been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

232. “You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”

— Shaquille O'Neal

233. “Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

234. “They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, ‘The Man.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

235. “I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He’s been doing it all his life.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

236. “Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

237. “They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

238. “There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what’s a charade, and I know what’s not a charade. I’ll leave it at that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

239. “If he wants to get that next contract, he’s going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

240. “I don’t see us having a problem. It’s going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

241. “Remember this-I’m going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

242. “I take that as an insult, even at 36.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

243. “Tell them it was a foul.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

244. “We had more great times than bad times together, but they’ve moved on, I’ve moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

245. “Why aren’t the Nets playing in Newark?”

— Shaquille O'Neal

246. “I have orders not to come back until I’m a thousand percent.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

247. “I don’t really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

248. “If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

249. “There’s two kinds of dirty – dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

250. “I don’t see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.”

— Shaquille O'Neal