Charles Barkley Quotes About Basketball
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I want her to understand that it's going to be a factor in her life. I just want her to know that (racism) does exist, and I want her to always be diligent, and if she sees it, address it and fight it.
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On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.
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I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
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All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.
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Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.
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You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
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Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.
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What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
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I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.
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Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
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I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
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You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.
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I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.
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People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.
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I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
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We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
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He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
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I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
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They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
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