Charles Barkley

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I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Sex
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I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Refs
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I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Funny
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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Hell
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They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: People
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You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Stupid
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People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Sports
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I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Skeletons
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Sometimes I have to criticize guys to try to make it fun, I mean, I'm out there trying to bust other people. I want all these guys to do well, but when they do something stupid or don't play well, I try not to kill 'em, I try to make 'em laugh a little bit.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Fun
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You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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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
Collection: Wise
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I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Only poor people go to jail.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Jail
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I'm not a role model.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Role Models
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Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Fans
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Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Team
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This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Sports
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It's the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Funny
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I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Jobs
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Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Letters
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There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Sports
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You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Funny
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He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Gun
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If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Guy
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Those Grizzlies are more like pandas.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Pandas
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I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Gay
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Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Men
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I didnt wear the pink panties because I didnt want America going crazy with excitement.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Crazy
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If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Jobs
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My wife's married. I'm not.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Wife
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On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.'
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Way
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People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: People
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He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Winning
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When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Dirty
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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball
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Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.
- Charles Barkley
Collection: Basketball