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 don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?
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You can’t start a diet in the middle of the week, that’s just stupid.
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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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I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
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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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It’s the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
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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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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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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’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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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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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
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