If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
CHARLES BARKLEYWe’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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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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I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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Kids are great. That’s one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It’s a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
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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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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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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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There’s only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don’t have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn’t take your life that serious.
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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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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.
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When you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
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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 just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I’m the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
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You can talk without saying a thing. I don’t ever want to be that type of person.
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