Shaquille O’Neal on Getting His Ph.D. and Overcoming His Stutter | Oz Celebrity - video Dailymotion

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Shaquille O’Neal reminisces about his first big spending spree. Then he discusses how his father influenced his career. Plus, find out how Halle Berry helped Shaq’s stutter.

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00:00 (audience cheering)

00:03 I mean, I was watching you with the audience

00:05 and they're up on the stands already.

00:06 - Yes.

00:07 - And you're a big guy.

00:08 (audience laughing)

00:11 - How's it going?

00:12 - Very well.

00:13 So before he walked out here,

00:14 he confided that his mom Lucille sent her regards.

00:18 - Yes.

00:18 - Is that true?

00:19 - Yes, she loves your show.

00:20 (laughing)

00:21 - I love when moms torture their boys.

00:23 (audience applauding)

00:24 - Everybody loves your show.

00:25 - Well, you're very kind to say that.

00:27 So a lot of nicknames you shack.

00:28 They call you the big Aristotle, right?

00:30 Superman for obvious reasons, Shaq Fu, right?

00:33 Shaq Daddy.

00:35 And the thing about Shaq Daddy I like

00:36 is that it makes that sort of gets you grooving.

00:37 But the part that I didn't know,

00:39 that I'm most proud of,

00:40 is your other nickname is Doctor.

00:42 - Yes.

00:44 I went back to school because I love my mother very much.

00:48 And I promised her that I would continue my education.

00:50 So I left school.

00:52 (audience cheering)

00:56 I left school early.

00:58 And then she would just call me every week.

00:59 Okay, you had a good game.

01:01 You did this, you did that.

01:02 But I need a degree.

01:03 So I got my bachelor's.

01:05 And I went and got my master's.

01:06 And then she said,

01:07 you know we don't have any doctors in the family.

01:09 So I said, I'll do it.

01:11 So I attended Barre University.

01:12 Took me five years to get my PhD.

01:14 And it was a wonderful day.

01:15 (audience cheering)

01:17 - Is Lucille proud of you anymore now?

01:19 - Yes, she calls me every time

01:21 and tells me she's proud of me.

01:22 But guess what?

01:23 - What?

01:24 - One day she called me and asked me to borrow some money.

01:26 And I said, why?

01:27 She wanted to go back to school.

01:28 So she got her bachelor's, her master's,

01:30 and her doctorate also.

01:31 (audience cheering)

01:33 - I love it.

01:34 Give me a hand here.

01:36 You got all these cool nicknames.

01:38 I'm just Doctor.

01:39 Give me a nickname.

01:40 I wanna have a nickname from now on.

01:41 - You ready?

01:42 - Yeah, I'm ready.

01:43 - Doctor Oz.

01:44 (audience laughing)

01:47 Genius, right?

01:48 - That's good enough.

01:49 - You like that?

01:49 Doctor Oz.

01:50 - All right, I'll take it.

01:52 Now are you really running for sheriff in Atlanta?

01:53 - I thought about it to doing it in 2020,

01:56 but I'll probably wait 'til 2024.

01:58 I wanna be the one that brings law enforcement

02:00 and community closer together.

02:02 'Cause right now we're miles apart.

02:06 - There we are.

02:07 - And I live in a small county outside of Atlanta

02:10 called Henry County.

02:11 And I've been mentioning to people,

02:14 people have been wanting me to run in 2020,

02:16 but I'm too busy right now.

02:18 So when I become a sheriff,

02:19 I wanna just be able to sit down and be sheriff.

02:21 Right now I got too much stuff going on.

02:23 So I don't wanna get voted in

02:25 and then cheat the people.

02:27 - Well, it's honest of you

02:28 to realize where your love is right now

02:30 and when it will be ready.

02:31 So let me go back in time a little bit,

02:33 'cause I'm curious how Shaq became Shaq.

02:35 So you get drafted,

02:38 you get a celebrity endorsement,

02:39 even before that, I think.

02:40 You spent a million dollars, if I understand, in an hour.

02:44 - Yep, in one hour.

02:46 - I mean, what did you buy?

02:47 - I bought myself a car, came home.

02:50 My father wanted a car, bought him a car,

02:52 bought my mother a car, bought some jewelry,

02:54 bought a couple of suits, and then I got a call

02:56 from the bank the next day.

02:58 He said, "Mr. O'Neal, you need to come see me."

03:01 And we had a long conversation.

03:02 He said, "You know, about 50% of athletes

03:05 "when they're done playing have nothing,

03:07 "and I don't want you to be like that."

03:08 He showed me what was going on

03:10 and he showed me I was 150 in a hole.

03:13 And then I looked at him, I said,

03:14 "Who the hell is FICA?"

03:15 (laughing)

03:18 FICA took all my money.

03:19 - I understand that your dad,

03:21 who was a drill sergeant in the Army,

03:23 was partly responsible for shaking you and saying,

03:26 "Son, I need you to have discipline

03:27 "in more things than just sports.

03:29 "You need to have it for money."

03:30 And that's the biggest problem

03:31 I think we face in America now.

03:32 Half the population doesn't have $400

03:35 when they need it in a crisis, so it creates anxiety.

03:37 - Yeah, he just, he always taught me

03:40 to just have things to fall back on,

03:41 just in case basketball didn't work.

03:43 Like, I would call him and say,

03:44 "How'd you like the game I played?

03:46 "It's a good game, but what you gonna do

03:47 "if you blow your knee up?"

03:48 Growing up as a medium-level juvenile delinquent,

03:52 I was always on punishment.

03:53 I was just able to sit there and dream.

03:55 And then, luckily, and by the grace of God,

03:58 I was able to accomplish each and every one of 'em.

04:00 - Why do you say you were a juvenile delinquent?

04:02 - I was, I used to get in trouble, Dr. Ross.

04:05 (audience laughing)

04:07 I don't think I could talk about it

04:08 'cause the statute of limitations ain't up on some of this.

04:10 (laughing)

04:12 No, I just, I mean, I was a follower instead of a leader,

04:17 and my father quickly convinced me to be a leader.

04:19 Just, you know, little stuff, breaking into cars,

04:22 stealing bubble gum, just a lot of, you know,

04:25 neighborhood fights, you know, just a little,

04:27 lot of childish, crazy things.

04:30 - Was your issue with stuttering part of that at all?

04:33 Was there insecurity with that?

04:35 - I don't know why I stuttered.

04:36 And you know how I got rid of my stuttering?

04:38 - No.

04:39 - I saw a picture of Halle Berry one day.

04:41 (audience laughing)

04:41 True, it just stopped.

04:43 - Made you breathless?

04:44 - Yeah, no, this is what happened.

04:46 I saw her in a movie, I was in college,

04:48 and I wrote her a letter, and she wrote me back.

04:50 - She did?

04:51 - She wrote me back, and I read the letter to myself,

04:53 and I was like, I don't stutter anymore.

04:56 So, Halle Berry, I love you.

04:58 (laughing)

05:00 (audience applauding)

05:04 True story.

05:05 - Is it really?

05:06 - Yeah, true, I just stopped.

05:08 - I've never heard that before.

05:10 You should be able to work at it, they've got a--

05:12 - No, I didn't take any speech therapy, none of that.

05:15 I just, you know, I was always shy, I always kept to myself,

05:18 but I saw one of her movies, I wrote her,

05:20 she wrote me back, and I read it.

05:22 - Was it because she wrote you back,

05:23 or was she saying in the letter that you stopped?

05:24 - No, she just said, I'm glad you're a fan of mine,

05:27 I'm also a fan of yours, good luck in the NBA.

05:29 I think when I read it, I read it with such confidence,

05:32 and when I read that, I was in the mirror,

05:33 and I was saying, look at what Halle Berry wrote to me.

05:36 (laughing)

05:38 And I read it, and then after that, it was just,

05:41 it was over.

05:42 - Speaking of love, your son, Sharif.

05:45 Future superstar, we think.

05:47 - Yes.

05:48 - In the NBA, playing for UCLA,

05:49 everything is going great, on the fast track,

05:51 just like his dad, and then you get this scary medical news,

05:54 which I'm sure stopped you, flattened your tracks.

05:57 - We all were nervous, but, you know,

06:01 I try to teach my children, don't worry about the problem,

06:04 worry about the solution.

06:06 So we know what the problem was,

06:07 so the solution was to get surgery.

06:10 And right before the surgery, I could see that he was down,

06:12 and I realized for me, when I was a youngster,

06:15 the thing that always got me to the next level was stories.

06:18 So I just told him a story, I said,

06:19 "My man, I've never had heart surgery,

06:22 "but I've had 10 other surgeries.

06:24 "I know you're scared, it's okay to be scared,

06:26 "but once you lay down on that table,

06:28 "and they introduce you to the anesthesia,

06:31 "you're not gonna remember anything."

06:32 So I said, "If you're scared, be scared, that's fine,

06:35 "but don't worry about it."

06:36 So after the surgery, he's like, "Dad, you're right."

06:39 - So he posted this great image of himself.

06:42 - Yes.

06:43 - It just says, "First time seeing my scar, #ZipperBoy."

06:46 There's Sharif lying on his bed.

06:47 So I'm a heart surgeon, as you know.

06:49 - Oh, I didn't know that.

06:50 - Yeah, that's where I'm--

06:51 (audience laughing)

06:51 Go, go, go. - You are?

06:52 - Yeah, I do that kind of surgery.

06:54 It's the best, I think it's the best job in the world.

06:56 - I thought you were just a regular doctor.

06:58 You're a real doctor, that's awesome.

06:59 (audience laughing)

07:01 I'm just playing, I'm just playing.

07:03 - Thank you for watching.

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