Top 300 Shaquille O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

303. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

305. “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

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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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. “I’m short and to the point.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

313. “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

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

— 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. “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

317. “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

318. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

327. “It matters in a fatherly way.”

— 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 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

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.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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