Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

304. “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

305. “I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

309. “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

310. “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

311. “I don’t have to shoot from more than two feet. I’m top 50. I’ve got 23,000 from where I shoot.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

312. “I’m not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn’t start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

313. “I’m short and to the point.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

314. “When you flop, that’s just another message that you don’t know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

315. “I’ve been an athlete that’s sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I’d love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

316. “Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn’t like him.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

317. “Keep in mind, I’m not allowed to be tough. I’m tamed.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

318. “It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I’m just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

319. “I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

320. “Well, Doctor, I don’t have the diagnosis on that. I’ll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

321. “I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

322. “I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

323. “Alvin’s the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!”

— Shaquille O'Neal

324. “It matters in a fatherly way.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

325. “I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that’s not there. He’s just somebody who doesn’t have a sense of humor, like I do.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

326. “Being the best right now doesn’t do anything for my feathers.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

327. “Flash, take the game off. I’ll go out and do the work.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

328. “But you can not compare Yao’s stats to mine. You just can’t compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

329. “I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

330. “I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn’t do that. I am the only one that has to do that.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

331. “It’s pretty much the same; it’s just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

332. “He’s the president. I’m the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.”

— Shaquille O'Neal