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Charles Barkley
16 quotes
“Can I Play??”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not a role model. I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.”
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“Oklahoma is nothing but vast wasteland; no place for black people.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
“The Oklahoma Sooners and the Hornets are the only brothers in town.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
“I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press conference before the USA played Angola in the 1st round of the 1992 Olympics.
“I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.”
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“You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in the New York Post in October 2000.
“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.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Verified on Late Late Show Oct 22 2004
“Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From CNN interview, Nov 22 2004, following a fight between players and fans at a recent Pistons-Pacers game.
“Only poor people go to jail.”
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“You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From The Jay Leno Show, November 2009
“It's great to be hosting SNL again. I hosted sixteen years ago. Back then I was in great shape, I was coming off an MVP season with the Phoenix Suns - now, I play bad golf, drink, sometimes I get arrested.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Saturday Night Live, January 9, 2010
“I can't screw up Alabama... We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About running for governor of Alabama, on Campbell Brown, CNN, October 27, 2008.
“Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Charles Barkley in Walter W. Moore's Wise Sayings (2012), p. 89
“If you’re gay, bless you. If you’re transgender, bless you. If you have a problem with that, f--- you!”
Charles Barkley (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TikTok video quoted in censored form by FoxNews] (July 17, 2023)
“I'd have played against him (Len Bias) for the next 14 years. I would have been in my prime and he would have been in his. I'll never forget what he looked like. He was a 'Wow!' player. When Maryland played and was on television, I watched. It was like, 'I need to watch this guy; I'll be seeing him real soon.' . . . It was just shocking. Thing is, cocaine was huge then. My brother had been in and out of rehab a few times. . . . It was a popular drug at the time. And guys I was playing against, like John Lucas and Michael Ray Richardson and John Drew had done cocaine. I was thinking: 'What the hell is up with this cocaine? I should try this once to see what it was all about.' Then, we heard the reports were that Bias only used it once . . . that it was his first time. When I heard that, it scared me to death . . . scared the daylights out of me. It scared me into not trying it even once, not going anywhere near it.”
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