If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
CHARLES BARKLEYI’m just what America needs: another unemployed black man.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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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?’
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People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn’t put a deer in the game.
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When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’
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I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that’s pretty cool.
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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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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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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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Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.
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Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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My message is simple: take control of your life.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
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