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?’
CHARLES BARKLEYI always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I’ve got a technique. It’s called just go get the damn ball.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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You 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.
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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’m not a role model. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.
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Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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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 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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I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
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I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I’ve got a technique. It’s called just go get the damn ball.
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The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
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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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Being 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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The older I get, the faster I was.
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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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