I 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 BARKLEYI don’t worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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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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I’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.
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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 don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
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There’s nobody you’d rather beat than your good friend.
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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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Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.
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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they’re still poor.
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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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We’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
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Social media is where losers go to feel important.
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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.
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If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
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I’d never buy my girl a watch… she’s already got a clock over the stove.
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My message is simple: take control of your life.
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I was a Republican until they lost their minds.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
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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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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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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 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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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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