Top 100 Quotes About Shaquille O'neal
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
Dennis Rodman
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.
Shaquille O'Neal
#13. 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.
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#14. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.
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#15. I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
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#16. I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.
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#17. My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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
#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
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#26. I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.
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#27. 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.
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#28. If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.'
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#34. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
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#37. I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.
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#38. I'm a season kind of guy - not the preseason but the regular season.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Some of my favorite songs
and I don't know if this is the right terminology
are white-boy classics.
Shaquille O'Neal
#41. 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.
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#44. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
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#49. 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.
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#50. And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded period.
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#51. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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
#57. 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.
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#58. 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
#59. I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.
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#61. I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.
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#64. In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.
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#65. My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it.
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#70. A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun
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#71. I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.
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#76. That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.
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#77. Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.
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#78. 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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#79. The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.
Shaquille O'Neal
#80. That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.
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#81. I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.
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#84. I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
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#85. I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.
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#86. David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
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#87. Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.
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#88. Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.
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#89. I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist.
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#90. I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
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#91. When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.
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#93. It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.
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#94. I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
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#95. (The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Shaquille O'Neal
#96. It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.
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#97. Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.
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#98. All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.
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#100. I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.
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