Top 100 O'neal Quotes
#1. Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
Bill Burr
#2. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
Samuel L. Jackson
#3. What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
Jack Dorsey
#4. Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.
Tommy Rettig
#5. Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
Ann Coulter
#6. Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
Robert Reich
#7. I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little creature next to Shaquille O'Neal.
Erinn Hayes
#8. To be or not to be ... that is an incomplete question. Dr. Jayce O'Neal
Jayce O'Neal
#9. Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.
Shaquille O'Neal
#10. I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
Dennis Rodman
#11. My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.
Kym Whitley
#12. I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!
Wladimir Klitschko
#13. Holy Christ! There was a frickin' melee in the alley. Lessers. Brothers. Two civilians crouched and quivering in the middle. And big bad Butch O'Neal.
J.R. Ward
#15. I had an absolutely revolting lunch with O'Neal. Although the food was pretty good.
Hugh Laurie
#16. It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.
Pat Riley
#17. I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
David Chang
#18. Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.
Bill Maher
#20. When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.
Shaquille O'Neal
#21. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#22. My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.
Shaquille O'Neal
#23. I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.
Shaquille O'Neal
#24. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#25. I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
Shaquille O'Neal
#26. I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.
Shaquille O'Neal
#27. My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.
Shaquille O'Neal
#28. Student: why do dumb people ignore wise people. Teacher: Because, the dumb people believe they are the wise people.
Jayce O'Neal
#29. If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.
Shaquille O'Neal
#30. In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#32. I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.
Shaquille O'Neal
#33. This life is your canvas; what will you make it?
Jayce O'Neal
#34. I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
Shaquille O'Neal
#35. Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
Shaquille O'Neal
#38. Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
#39. I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
Patrice O'Neal
#40. I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.
Shaquille O'Neal
#41. Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.
Shaquille O'Neal
#42. If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal
#43. Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.
Shaquille O'Neal
#44. I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
Tatum O'Neal
#45. He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers been brave enough to mention it?
Eilis O'Neal
#46. Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#47. 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
#48. If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.
Shaquille O'Neal
#50. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
Shaquille O'Neal
#52. It's easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.
Terry A. O'Neal
#54. Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!
Jayce O'Neal
#55. I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.
Shaquille O'Neal
#56. I'm a season kind of guy - not the preseason but the regular season.
Shaquille O'Neal
#57. It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#58. Please " I whispered. "Please come back."
There was no one there to hear me.
Eilis O'Neal
#59. Some of my favorite songs
and I don't know if this is the right terminology
are white-boy classics.
Shaquille O'Neal
#60. How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.
Eilis O'Neal
#61. About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.
Shaquille O'Neal
#63. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry A. O'Neal
#65. Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
#66. 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
#69. I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal
#70. This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#71. I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal
#72. Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.
Shaquille O'Neal
#73. People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
Patrice O'Neal
#74. And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded period.
Shaquille O'Neal
#75. My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Tatum O'Neal
#77. There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
Shaquille O'Neal
#80. 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
#81. Darkness exists to make light truly count.
Ryan O'Neal
#82. Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. You can't go fishing while you're anchored in the desert.
Jayce O'Neal
#84. It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out ... I am here to serve your every need, King James.
Shaquille O'Neal
#85. I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.
Shaquille O'Neal
#86. If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.
Shaquille O'Neal
#87. We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe.
Jayce O'Neal
#88. I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.
Shaquille O'Neal
#90. I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.
Shaquille O'Neal
#91. Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
Tatum O'Neal
#94. In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.
Shaquille O'Neal
#95. My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it.
Shaquille O'Neal
#96. Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal
#97. Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
Ryan O'Neal
#98. If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw it to the ground, and danced on its grave.
Eilis O'Neal
#99. I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.
Patrice O'Neal
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