Charles Barkley Quotes

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.

I'm not a role model.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds

I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

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.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

I'm never embarassed.

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.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.

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.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

Only poor people go to jail.

I didnt wear the pink panties because I didnt want America going crazy with excitement.

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.