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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “I am a tropical black man.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

207. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

218. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

220. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

223. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

230. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

232. “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

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

237. “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

238. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

240. “For once in my career, I won’t have to hold anybody’s hand and they won’t have to hold mine. I’m surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before – three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

241. “I have never been a shooter.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

243. “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

244. “It means I don’t have to charter that big jet for the family.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

245. “When I retire, I’m going after his job. If I don’t make sheriff, I’m going after his job. He’s not that good. You can quote me on that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

246. “Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I’d think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then...”

— Shaquille O'Neal

247. “No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren’t too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

249. “Tell them it was a foul.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

250. “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