Shaquille O’Neal: My biggest NBA Regrets | Forward Progress

In this week’s motivational podcast, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal shares his short list of regrets from his NBA career, which includes Wilt Chamberlain.

Episode Transcript

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Hey, it's Thursday, which means we're coming at you with a short
feel good story from a past guest.
Hope you enjoyed the clip this week.
Shaquille O'Neal, To what extentdo you think you made the most
of your talent? Probably when I didn't have any
Knick knack injuries and you know, my, my goal was to just

(00:23):
win 1. So I'm, I'm overqualified, I'm
over. I did it.
That was just my goal to win onebecause I used to get so much
Flack for not winning one, just one-on-one.
So let me get 2. Let me get 3.
Only regret I have right now is 2 regrets actually. 3 missing

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5000 free throws, not passing upWilt Chamberlain in points, and
not not being being higher on the scoring list.
That's it. That was my only three regrets.
You had more championships than what?
Yeah, I got more champ, but you know, they like I'm very when it
comes to basketball conversations, I'm very

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arrogant. I only want to hear my name.
So when they say who's the most dominant player ever, I want him
to say my name. I don't want him to be like, ah,
maybe we'll maybe Shaq that that's that.
Don't fly with me. I want him to say Shaq.
Does does that really bother you?
Yeah, it does because that was my niche.
I wasn't going for the greatest player niche.
I wasn't going for, you know, the the best.

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I wasn't going for that because those those words are, you know,
those words are just thrown out,you know, words like most
dominant, you got to earn that. So we'll average 50 in one
season. He did.
He averaged 50 in one season. So when I got really close to
him, I think I needed to averagelike 1012 points my last year in
Boston and I want to pass them up.

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So when I had the career and injury I was like damn, not
going to pass well. So those are my only three
requests. My I have no other regrets.
I got 4 ranks when I only wantedone.
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