Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “On paper, I think this is the best team I’ve been on.”

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302. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

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305. “My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.”

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306. “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

307. “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

308. “I don’t have to make a point. I’m George Bush. I’m the president. I built that arena, so I don’t have to make a point.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

309. “I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.”

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310. “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

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

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312. “I’m short and to the point.”

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

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

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

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316. “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.”

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317. “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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318. “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.”

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319. “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

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.”

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321. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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327. “It matters in a fatherly way.”

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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.”

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329. “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.”

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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

332. “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