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It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
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This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
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I'm never embarassed.
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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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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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I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.
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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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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
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Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.
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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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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'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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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
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I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
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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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The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.
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I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
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Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
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