Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I don’t see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

255. “I do what I do. Always.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

256. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

266. “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

267. “I have never been a shooter.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

271. “I respect the older guys.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

272. “I’ll hit them when it matters.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

281. “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

282. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

284. “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

285. “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

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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

295. “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

296. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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.’”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

300. “I think it’s a great city. I think it’s a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn’t really the place you can do that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal