Charles Barkley Quotes about Sports

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

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

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

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.

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

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

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.

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

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

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

It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

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.