Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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 was like, ‘Huh? You want my jersey?’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

204. “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

205. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

210. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

212. “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

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 take that as an insult, even at 36.”

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

217. “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

218. “I’m sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

232. “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

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

239. “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

240. “I have never been a shooter.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

244. “It’s hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

246. “We’re the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we’re all about.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

247. “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

248. “Tell them it was a foul.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

250. “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