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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
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I don't care what people think. people are stupid.
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What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.
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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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I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
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It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
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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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If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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