Charles Barkley famous quotes

I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Mom #Mother

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.
-- Charles Barkley

#Jobs #America #People

As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities.
-- Charles Barkley

#Believe #Gay #Cities

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
-- Charles Barkley

#Sports #War #Tired

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Retirement #America

I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.
-- Charles Barkley

#Wise #Country #Successful

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Giving #Sitting Down

I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.
-- Charles Barkley

#Daughter #Jobs #School

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
-- Charles Barkley

#Drinking #Reading #Heavy

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #People #Laughing

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
-- Charles Barkley

#Would Be #Action

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.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Sports #Shoes

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.
-- Charles Barkley

#Sports #Athlete #Grandmother

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Believe #Athlete

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Growing Up #Kids

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Believe #Guy

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Education #Sports

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ***** on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
-- Charles Barkley

#Mom #Sports #Growing Up

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Sports #Children

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Stupid #Thinking

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Sports #Tunnels

People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.
-- Charles Barkley

#Running #Games #People

I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Class #Giving

Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Guy #Body

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Sports #Relax

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Long #Would Be

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.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Sports #Running

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
-- Charles Barkley

#Balls #Earth #May

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Men #Half

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Differences #Shots

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
-- Charles Barkley

#Thank God #Saint #Looks

My message is simple: take control of your life
-- Charles Barkley

#Simple #Messages

Most sportswriters don't know their ***** from a hole in the ground.
-- Charles Barkley

#Ass #Holes

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Enough

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Running #Thinking

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
-- Charles Barkley

#Basketball #Cancer

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while.
-- Charles Barkley

#New York #Team #Thinking

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.
-- Charles Barkley

#Sports #Regret #Yeah