Shaquille O’Neal 45 Motivating Quotes

Shaquille O’Neal is a former professional basketball player, actor, and rapper from the United States. Newark, New Jersey, must have been fortunate because this remarkable personality was born there on March 6, 1972. He played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Similarly, he is often recognized as one of the most well-known NBA players in history. Because of his size and weight, he was one of the most powerful players to ever compete in the NBA. He stands 7 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 325 pounds, making him the tallest and heaviest person of his generation.

In this article, I will provide a few Shaquille O’Neal quotations that will inspire you to win.

1. “I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”― Shaquille O’Neal

2. “For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’”― Shaquille O’Neal

3. “I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.”― Shaquille O’Neal

4. “I NEVER WORRY ABOUT THE PROBLEM. I WORRY ABOUT THE SOLUTION.”― SHAQUILLE O’NEAL

5. “I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.”― Shaquille O’Neal

6. “I have never been a shooter.”― Shaquille O’Neal

7. “If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.”― Shaquille O’Neal

8. “Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.”― Shaquille O’Neal

9. “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     

10. “I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.”― Shaquille O’Neal

11. “Generals don’t panic; then the troops never panic.”― Shaquille O’Neal

12. “I do what I do. Always.”― Shaquille O’Neal

13. “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

14. “When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.”― Shaquille O’Neal

15. “Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.”― Shaquille O’Neal

16. “Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That’s all I’m asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.”― Shaquille O’Neal

17. “I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.”― Shaquille O’Neal

18. “When you’re in championships, it’s never about what you do. It’s always about what other people do.”― Shaquille O’Neal

19. “We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.”― Shaquille O’Neal

20. “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

21. “I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.”― Shaquille O’Neal

22. “Why don’t you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I’m stronger).”― Shaquille O’Neal

23. “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

24. “My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.”― Shaquille O’Neal

25. “I’M DONE WITH THE NICKNAMES. ACTUALLY, WHEN I OBTAIN MY DOCTORATE, I WILL NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO CALL ME SHAQ ANYMORE, EITHER.”― SHAQUILLE O’NEAL     

26. “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

27. “The best quality about Kobe Bryant? Do you

28. “I’M A MAMA’S BOY ABOVE ALL.”― SHAQUILLE O’NEAL    

29. “When I tweet, I try and accomplish three things. One, is to make you laugh. Two, is to inform you. Three, is to enlighten you. That’s all I do.”― Shaquille O’Neal

30. “Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It’s what you feel.”― Shaquille O’Neal

31. “I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me.”― Shaquille O’Neal

32. “I don’t know anything about cars. I can promise you that.”― Shaquille O’Neal

33. “Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O’Neal.”― Shaquille O’Neal

34. “As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I’d score 40 points. I’d come home and say, ‘Look dad, I scored 40.’ He’d never have a smile on his face. He’d be like, ‘I saw that move you did. What if you’d hurt your knee?’”― Shaquille O’Neal

35. “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

36. “I don’t believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you’ve changed because now you have money.”― Shaquille O’Neal

37. “We’re just going to come out and play. We know that we’re supposed to win all the games, but if we don’t, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.”― Shaquille O’Neal

38. want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.”― Shaquille O’Neal

39. “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.”― Shaquille O’Neal

40. “I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.”― Shaquille O’Neal

41. “One lucky shot deserves another.”― Shaquille O’Neal

42. “But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.”― Shaquille O’Neal

43. “I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.”― Shaquille O’Neal

44. “THIS IS A TOUGH GAME. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU’VE GOT TO PLAY HURT, WHEN YOU’VE GOT TO BLOCK OUT THE PAIN.”― SHAQUILLE O’NEAL     

45. “That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem – hard to figure out. A lot of people really don’t know the Pythagorean Theory. They don’t make them like me anymore. They don’t want to make them like that anymore.”― Shaquille O’Neal