I don’t worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun.
CHARLES BARKLEYIf you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don’t, who will? Not other poor people, that’s for sure.
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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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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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I was a Republican until they lost their minds.
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I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.
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I’d never buy my girl a watch… she’s already got a clock over the stove.
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If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn’t get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.
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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 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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He’ll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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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.
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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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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they’re still poor.
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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 just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
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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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He’s got to bring something stronger than that. That’s like bringing milk to a bar, it’s not strong enough
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I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
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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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I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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When you read the book you see that these guys aren’t holding any punches. They’re straightforward. They’re honest. They’re giving you their honest opinion.
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