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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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If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
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This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
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Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.
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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
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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.
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My message is simple: take control of your life
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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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We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
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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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There's no medical term for what I've got.
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If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.
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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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I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
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I was a Republican until they lost their minds
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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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