A biography for Charles Barkleyhasn’t been written yet.
“I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.”
“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.”
“All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.”
“זה מה שארצות הברית צריכה, עוד שחור מובטל באלבאמה.”
“אתה לא יכול להתחיל דיאטה באמצע השבוע, זה פשוט מטופש.”
“רק עניים הולכים לכלא.”
“בכל פעם שאוהד נוגע בך, יש לך את הזכות לכסח לו את הצורה.”
“ילדים הם דבר נהדר, זה אחד הדברים הטובים ביותר במקצוע שלנו. חבל שהם צריכים להתבגר, להפוך לאנשים רגילים שבאים למשחקים וקוראים לך בשמות.”
“אתה יודע שהכול הלך לעזאזל כשהראפר הטוב ביותר הוא בחור לבן ושחקן הגולף הטוב ביותר הוא שחור.”
“אני לא יודע הרבה על אנגולה, אבל אני יודע שהם בצרות צרורות.”
“See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.”
“Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.”
“White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.”
“When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.”
“If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.”
“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.”
“I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.”