I don’t worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun.
CHARLES BARKLEY
I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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I don’t worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun.
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He’ll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
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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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My message is simple: take control of your life.
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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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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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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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If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
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When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.
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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.
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When you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
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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.
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Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.
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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I’m the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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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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