The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
CHARLES BARKLEYYou 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.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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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’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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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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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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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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You can talk without saying a thing. I don’t ever want to be that type of person.
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Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.
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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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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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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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Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.
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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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This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
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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 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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