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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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I didnt wear the pink panties because I didnt want America going crazy with excitement.
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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, 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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It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
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If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
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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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There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.
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If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.
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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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Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.
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I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.
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You 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.
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Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.
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They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.
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I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
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We're not all supposed to think alike.
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I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
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It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.
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