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 BARKLEYPoor 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.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.
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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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I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
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I’m not a role model. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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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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I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
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I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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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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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
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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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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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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.
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