Shaq Leaves The Audience SPEECHLESS | Some of the Most Inspiring Speeches Ever

What are you most proud of in your playing career? I'm most proud of my outstanding free throw percentage.

51%.

Make one, miss one. One day you're gonna be recognized, your name will be remembered because you are different. So master being different. You know, my mother always told me, make them remember your name. No matter how, make them remember your name.

He's a retired professional basketball player. He was drafted by the Orlando Magic and quickly became one of the best centers in the He's currently an analyst on the TV program Inside the NBA. He's Shaquille O'Neal, and here's my take on his top 10 rules for success. Rule number 1 is my personal favorite, and I'd love to know which one you guys like the best. And as always, as you're watching, if you hear something that really resonates with you, please leave it in the comments below. Put quotes around it so other people can be inspired as well, and when you write it down, it's much more likely to stick with you as well. Enjoy!

What is it about investment and entrepreneurship that sort of has bitten you?

I never look at it as investments, believe it or not. I just look at it as partnerships, help changing the world, and just being part of something that's inspiring. My business people all the time, whenever they talk about money, you can ask them, I was like, "Ah, I don't wanna hear it." But if they bring an idea to me that I think is gonna go to the next level, most of the time if I follow my heart, then everything else will fall in place. I've never ever done a deal, "Hey, we got this suit company, we throw some pinstripes in the suit, you gimme $100,000, we sell 20 of 'em, we make—" I've never did a deal where it was always based on money. I've always did my business deals based on how I felt it was gonna go in the future, how I felt it was gonna help and inspire somebody.

Pac tries to be tricky, and it may cost the Nuggets a 4-point swing. You ever see a man that big fly?

What are you most proud of in your playing career? I'm most proud of my outstanding free throw percentage, 51%. Make one, miss one. No, I, uh, I'm most I'm most proud that I made it. So to just fulfill the dreams and just work hard and, you know, just persevere through everything. And, you know, I learned at age 13, 14, 15 to use criticism as motivation. So whenever somebody told me I couldn't do it, it just made me go out and work harder.

Orlando's defense is so strong. When you drive to the front, you got to maintain body Contact. He feels, he grabs, but he doesn't move back enough and he gets dunked on.

How embarrassing is that? Investments not going to always go how you want them to go. Business plans not going to go how you want them to go. So you just have to— you just have to regroup. You know, you can never— you say regroup. What does that mean? What does that look like? My theory, my thought process is to never focus on the problem, focus on the solution. I invested in this water company. It didn't go well. That money's gone. Now I got to regroup. Now I got to do something else. So I'll be upset for about 20 minutes. Go to that cabinet, get them Frosted Flakes, get some of that cold milk, slice them bananas up, watch some ESPN, and then the next day I'm back on track. Y'all got that? That's pretty good.

But the key thing he said Focus on the solution, not on the problem, because where your energy goes, that's where your focus and concentration goes. Oh baby, tear down the rim! Alonzo Mourning just got posterized. Oh my goodness, he went flying through the air and he's saying, bang your head.

Now, one thing I What I tried to do when I came in was I wanted to be different. You know, my dad, you know, growing up, I realized that I was a little bit different, but I didn't like being different. And he would tell me, you know what, one day you're gonna be recognized, your name will be remembered because you are different. So master being different. Don't be like everybody else, master being different.

Bryce falling away, won't go. O'Neal the rebound. Now the Magic with a final shot chance. O'Neal runs the floor. He takes it all the way! Well, that blew my theory there because the Heat came down and threw up another quick shot.

Don't do it because you're trying to get your followers up, you know what I mean? Like, if you're not really with the cause and you're not going to dedicate yourself 1,000%, don't do it. Like, when you talk about Jim Brown and Bill Russell and those guys, they dedicated themselves 1,000%. We didn't have Twitter back then and you follow and all, they dedicate themselves 1,000%. So if you're not going to dedicate yourself 1,000%, and if you're not going to do it when the cameras are off, don't do it.

Oh my goodness, Shaquille O'Neal, what an athlete! Are you kidding me?

But David Robinson was the nicest man ever. I was, I was the big man on campus in San Antonio, and then the Spurs, they draft him. And he steals all my shine. So I meet him one day and I was like, Mr. Robinson, can I have your autograph? Because I learned a lot from him. I learned as a big man you could— you can get easy buckets by running the floor. Also learned the spin lob thing.

Slam through O'Neal into the lane, slammer! Oh baby, save the women and children on that one!

I learned that from watching Dave Robinson. So I meet him, we have a conversation, he signs my autograph. First time we play as the Spurs, he kills me. Kills me. And my father rips me a new one. Oh, you showing him too much respect. I don't care if that's David Robinson. You Shaq O'Neal. You need to dominate. You need to go home and think about what you need to do. So I was like, you know what? He didn't give me this autograph when I was 15 years old. That pisses me off. So like, from that point on, when I said that to myself, that he didn't give me autograph, he stiffed me for autograph as a youngster, I wanted to pay him back. That was my way of competing with David Robinson.

Shaq spins, probably extra move. Let me see, let me see your best. You all right? Yeah, I'm all right. So, um, I guess we will never know. Between the two of us, I'm seeing that you just destroyed the basket. Last game, Dennis Scott was starting, Bowie was coming off the bench as follows, and almost— and does bring down the entire backcourt. Kakea, what? I've never seen that. Hold on to the roof. The Shaq attack.

Do you have any advice for people looking to kind of branch out of their comfort zone? You have to, you have to, you have to value partnerships. Like, I've, I've, I've always been a basketball player. I've always played basketball. I, I would I could probably say I'm a master of basketball. So now when I wanted to become a businessman, like, I had to go through the dos and don'ts of business. But, you know, to get respect as a businessman, I was like, let me go ahead and get this master's in business administration so they know and understand what I'm talking about. You know, I've always considered myself a leader, so, you know, my thought process is let me get this doctorate in leadership so people know and understand that my thought process on how I do things, but I've always been smart enough to have people better than me on my team. For example, like, what's the name of this? TechCrunch. So if I'm gonna start a magazine, so if I'm gonna start a magazine called TechCrunch, best believe I'm gonna have the techiest publisher, I'm gonna have the techiest camera guys, I'm gonna have the techiest interviewers working for me rather than me trying to do everything by myself. So you have to, you know, value partnerships. For example, if I want to be the best sheriff in Austin, Texas, I got to get the best police officers. I can't be the best without having the best team. So I've always, always valued partnerships, and I always had people better than me and smarter than me around me so they can motivate me, so they can help me.

Wow, that's you? Yes.

How old were you? 16.

Growing up a military brat, he frequently changed schools and had to make new friends. He struggled to feel comfortable in his own skin.

I've always thrived on uniqueness. You know, my mother always told me, make them remember your name no matter how. Make them remember your name.

Well, guess it pays to listen to mom. Shaq over to Skiles, puts up a 3, he missed it, and Turner chases it down. Shaq for 2 over Elijah Juan. Oh baby, that was nasty! My goodness, that's—

I don't want to be remembered as a, as an athlete who made a lot of money or an athlete who did great movies like Kazaam. I don't want blue chips. I don't, I don't want to be remembered for a guy that's won a lot of championships. I want to be remembered as a guy because of his action, he inspired people to learn more, to do more, and to want more.

Shaquille's gonna have to get back. Oh, oh, what a dunk! Hey, look at him, look back at Mourning. Oh, he came flying out of nowhere.

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See you soon. And you know, Rep, Pat Riley and Dale Brown are similar guys. They, they teach never give up. You know, I, I can remember a game we, we weren't playing well and Pat Riley comes in. You guys' mind aren't in it. He comes in with a big bucket of water. It's all up here. You could do anything you want. I'm gonna put my head in that bucket for 3 minutes. And everybody's sitting there like, yeah, the record is a minute and 30. People that go scuba diving, a minute 30, maybe 2. And he did it for 3 minutes. Oh, come on. 3 minutes. Ernie, he stuck his head in there. Ask him next time you see him. He stuck his head in there. With his hair huge? He put his hair under there too? Yes, yes. I don't know which part of that is more amazing. I'm telling you, he did it. So like, the guys like looking at him like, you know what? He's right. So like his speeches and his stories, and you know, I always tell people, that's what always took me to the next level. Not training, not going out and being in the gym 3 hours. Conversations. So those kind of things, whether it's Sarge or whether it's Dale Brown or Phil and his zen or, or Pat Riley, those were the kind of things that gave you that oomph that you needed? Yes, because growing up it took a disciplinarian to make me who I am. It took a disciplinarian for me to stop being a follower and learn to be a leader. I was, I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent. I used to come home and get in trouble. My father would just say, 'Gotta stop being a follower, man. I know your friends wanted to steal the car and you jumped in the car with them. Now everybody's in trouble. You got to stop that.

You got to learn how to be a leader.' Tell me this, do you feel any pressure? Because people say that now Shaq is in LA, we're going to win a championship right away. I know that you probably came here to win a championship, but do you feel like all the pressure's on you to come and win one?

I really don't believe in pressure. My job is to just go out, play well, and you know, you have to realize that all the expectations that's set on me, those are the same expectations that I set for myself. I just want to come out and win. Never give up, work hard, and continue to learn. Not only do I talk the talk, I try and walk the walk. I left LSU in 1992 2000, I received my bachelor's, so my mom said she was gonna whoop me. Mama had an alter ego too, and the name was Bigger Belt. In 2004, I received my MBA. In 2012, I received my doctorate in education.