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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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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
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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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People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.
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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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I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.
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I'm never embarassed.
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I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
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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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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
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