Charles Barkley Quotes about Basketball - Page 2

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.

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

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.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

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.

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.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

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.

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

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.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.

You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.

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.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.