Charles Barkley Quotes about Basketball - Page 3

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

I want her to understand that it's going to be a factor in her life. I just want her to know that (racism) does exist, and I want her to always be diligent, and if she sees it, address it and fight it.

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.

What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

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

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.

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

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

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.