Quotes from Charles Barkley


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I'm no role model.


We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.


What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.


I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.


This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.


I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.


If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.


I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.


See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.


Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.


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.


It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.


We're not all supposed to think alike.


Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.


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.


I love New York City; I've got a gun.


I think you have an obligation to be honest.


Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.


One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.


I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.