Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I have orders not to come back until I’m a thousand percent.”

— 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. “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

254. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

258. “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

259. “I do what I do. Always.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

260. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

263. “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

264. “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

265. “It’s LeBron’s team. He’s the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I’m now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that’s what I’m here to do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

267. “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

268. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

270. “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

271. “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

272. “I have never been a shooter.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

275. “I respect the older guys.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

276. “I’ll hit them when it matters.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

278. “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

279. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

285. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

288. “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

289. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

294. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

297. “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

298. “It’s t’ai chi every time. I’m using your positive energy, and I’m blowing off it. See, most guys can’t push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

300. “I think I’m the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, ‘That’s barbecued chicken down there.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal