If you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
CHARLES BARKLEYIt’s the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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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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Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.
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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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Just because you say something doesn’t make it controversial, and it doesn’t make you a bad person.
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I’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.
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There’s only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don’t have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn’t take your life that serious.
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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.’
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I’m really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it’s their own business. Because as a Black man, I think you’ve got to be against any form of discrimination.
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People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I’m gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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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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If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
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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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I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that’s pretty cool.
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You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They’re old. Old people don’t get healthy. They die.
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