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.
CHARLES BARKLEYIf you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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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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We’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
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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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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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If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
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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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When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’
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I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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I was a Republican until they lost their minds.
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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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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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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 not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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