Zitat des Tages von Charles Barkley:
I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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.
If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'
To think that everybody's like you is silly.
I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.
Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
We're not all supposed to think alike.
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I've felt like this for years.
I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.
Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.
You can't sit on the sidelines of life.
If you're a poor white person and your life sucks, it's easy for you to blame Hispanics cos you don't want to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the reason my life sucks.' The Republicans do a good job exploiting that.
What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.
When you steal from somebody, you are saying to them, 'I don't respect how hard you worked for your money.' When somebody steals from you, that's what they're saying.
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.
I think you have an obligation to be honest.
I'm no role model.
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
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.
That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.
Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.