I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEYThis is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
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We’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
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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 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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Social media is where losers go to feel important.
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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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We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
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I don’t hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
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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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He’ll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
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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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I’m just what America needs: another unemployed black man.
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What does politically correct mean? If you’re fat, don’t ask me if you’re fat, because I’m gonna tell you the truth. You’re fat.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.
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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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