A biography for Charles Barkleyhasn’t been written yet.
“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”
“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.”
“My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.”
“I live in Arizona, and I don't like the way they treat Hispanics there.”
“For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”
“I respect and admire what cops do.”
“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.”
“I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.”
“If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.”
“You can't sit on the sidelines of life.”
“I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.”
“Nobody doesn't like meat.”
“I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.”
“I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.”
“I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.”
“What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.”
“Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.”
“I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.”
“Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.”
“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”