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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.
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
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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.
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I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.
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Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.
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If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.
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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 know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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