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.
CHARLES BARKLEYBeing 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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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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Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.
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There’s nobody you’d rather beat than your good friend.
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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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You can talk without saying a thing. I don’t ever want to be that type of person.
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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
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My message is simple: take control of your life.
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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 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 know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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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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Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.
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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.
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