383 Quotes by Charles Barkley


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    I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.

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    I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

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    Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

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    It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

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    I've only met LeBron casually. He's always been great to me. I think I've been great and cordial to him, but this notion that we have to be friends - we're never gonna be friends. And that's not a negative thing.

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    I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.

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    In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

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