I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEYIf all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?
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It’s the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
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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 was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’
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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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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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The older I get, the faster I was.
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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.
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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 want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it’s about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
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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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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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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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I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
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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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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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