Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Tell them it was a foul.”

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252. “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...”

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253. “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.”

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

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

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

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257. “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.”

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258. “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.”

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259. “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.”

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

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261. “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.”

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

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263. “I do what I do. Always.”

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264. “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.”

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

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266. “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.”

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

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

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269. “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.”

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270. “I’ll hit them when it matters.”

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271. “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.”

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272. “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.”

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

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

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

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276. “I respect the older guys.”

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

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

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

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

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281. “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.”

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

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283. “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.”

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

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

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

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287. “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.”

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

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

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

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291. “Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.”

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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.”

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293. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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299. “They asked me when I was out there, ‘Why do you want to be traded?’ I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That’s backwards, man.”

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300. “Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn’t have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn’t have fell. How he got on the ground, I don’t know. He’s clumsy. Quote me on that. I’m going to get him.”

— Shaquille O'Neal