Charles Barkley quotes

I am a mad dog whose only concern is winning.
- Charles Barkley

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
- Charles Barkley

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

We're not all supposed to think alike.
- Charles Barkley

I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.
- Charles Barkley

The older I get, the faster I was.
- Charles Barkley

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.
- Charles Barkley

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.
- Charles Barkley

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

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.
- Charles Barkley

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

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

Just because you watch Grey's Anatomy doesn't mean you can do the operation.
- Charles Barkley

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint. When I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.
- Charles Barkley

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.
- Charles Barkley

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

If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?
- Charles Barkley

I don’t hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
- Charles Barkley

I think you have an obligation to be honest.
- Charles Barkley

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

If I screw up, I’m gonna say, ‘You know what? I really screwed up.’ That’s all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That’s just the way it works.
- Charles Barkley

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
- Charles Barkley