Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Remember this-I’m going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

252. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

255. “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

256. “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

257. “Tell them it was a foul.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

259. “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

260. “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

261. “I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

262. “Some of my favorite songs – and I don’t know if this is the right terminology – are white-boy classics.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

263. “The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

264. “I’d heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

265. “I’ll hit them when it matters.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

266. “I don’t believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you’ve changed because now you have money.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

267. “As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

268. “I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I’m used to that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

269. “Against Bradley, every time I’m trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

270. “I do what I do. Always.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

271. “I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

272. “My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

273. “I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

274. “This really isn’t a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You’re supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You’re a father. So a team like that, we’re supposed to beat them like this.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

275. “I’m the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

276. “And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

277. “The only demise of Shaquille O’Neal will be his age.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

278. “No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn’t want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

279. “Shaquille O’Neal has always been one to speak the truth.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

280. “There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I’m a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

281. “I’m going to be looking to get out like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

282. “The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

283. “I respect the older guys.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

284. “Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

285. “I think I’m one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

286. “I’m the first player in history that doesn’t want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

287. “I’ll just have to get it against my favorite team.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

288. “It’s over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don’t play with me. Seriously, don’t play with me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

289. “I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what’s right for them.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

290. “We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

291. “All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

292. “My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I’m just a little jealous about it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

293. “I don’t take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

294. “Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

295. “I would love an extension, who wouldn’t? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I’ll sign it right now. I won’t even read the contract. I’m just here to take care of business and I know can help give the city what it’s looking for.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

296. “I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

297. “On paper, I think this is the best team I’ve been on.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

298. “I’d shoot zero percent before I’d shoot underhanded.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

299. “I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

300. “When you’ve got a guy that’s going to look for you, you run. A lot of people think I can’t run, but my thing was I wasn’t going to be running if you’re not going to throw it. I know Nash will throw it.”

— Shaquille O'Neal