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 BARKLEYThere’s nobody you’d rather beat than your good friend.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
-
-
I don’t care what people think. people are stupid.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
When you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
You can talk without saying a thing. I don’t ever want to be that type of person.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
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.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
Every 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 BARKLEY -
I don’t hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
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.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
CHARLES BARKLEY