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.
CHARLES BARKLEYIf 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.
CHARLES BARKLEYWell, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
CHARLES BARKLEYBut when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
CHARLES BARKLEYThe main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
CHARLES BARKLEYThere’s only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don’t have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn’t take your life that serious.
CHARLES BARKLEYPeople say I eat a lot. I really don’t. More or less I just eat all the time.
CHARLES BARKLEYI want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it’s about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
CHARLES BARKLEYYou 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.
CHARLES BARKLEYThese 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.
CHARLES BARKLEYEvery time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter’s old enough to take care of that herself.
CHARLES BARKLEYI don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEYI was a Republican until they lost their minds.
CHARLES BARKLEYI’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.
CHARLES BARKLEYWhen you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
CHARLES BARKLEYPeople always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I’m gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
CHARLES BARKLEYI don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
CHARLES BARKLEY