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 BARKLEYWell, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking – and that’s all that golf is – then you are officially fat.
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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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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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I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
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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 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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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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I don’t care what people think. people are stupid.
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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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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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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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We’re not all supposed to think alike.
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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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People say I eat a lot. I really don’t. More or less I just eat all the time.
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