Charles Barkley Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Shoes

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Athlete, Grandmother

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Children

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Education, Sports

  "How to Get More Value Out of Your Education" by John Rampton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Relax

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Humor

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

• 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.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Crazy, Team

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, White

  Charles Barkley (2009). “Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley”, p.16, Hachette UK

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

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Good Friend, Hockey

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Rapper

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Smell

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

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

• 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

  Sports, War, Tired

  "Sir Charles Has Some Royal Proclamations". Interview with Larry Stewart, articles.latimes.com. April 19, 2003.

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

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Want, Dump

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

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Regret, Yeah

  “The Greatest Party Animals Of All Time” by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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