Charles Barkley 105 inspiring Quotes

Charles Barkley is a well-known name in basketball history. He is a politician and a professional basketball player from the United States. He has multiple nicknames based on his various behaviors. Because of his strong and outspoken nature, he is known as “Sir Charles,” and because of his distinctive build and talent as a player, he is known as “The Round Mound of Rebound.” Most of his friends refer to him as Chunk Barkley.

Furthermore, he is a powerful individual because he established himself as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards. He used a diverse violent game to win. His popularity skyrockets as a result of his talent, and he is now considered one of the top rebounders in the game’s history. Despite his talent and hard work, he was unable to win an NBA championship throughout his career. He is well-known not just as a player, but also as a commentator on the television show Inside the NBA.

Here is a compilation of his notable quotes to assist you.

1. “I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.”― Charles Barkley
2. “Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.”― Charles Barkley
3. “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.”― Charles Barkley
4. “AT SOME POINT, I DON’T WANT TO HAVE ANY OBLIGATION. AND JUST CHILL OUT.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
5. “The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.”― Charles Barkley
6. “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.”― Charles Barkley
7. “Just because you watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ doesn’t mean you can do the operation.”― Charles Barkley
8. “ONE OF THE REASONS I DON’T TRUST THE MEDIA IS YOU CAN’T HAVE A DOUBLE STANDARD FOR GUYS YOU LIKE AND DISLIKE.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
9. “Kids are born into the situation they’re born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it’s up to us to take care of kids – that’s part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, ‘There’s two groups we should take care of – old people and young people.”― Charles Barkley
10. “Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that’s what this country was built on.”― Charles Barkley
11. “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.”― Charles Barkley
12. “EVERYBODY WANTS TO PROTECT THEIR OWN TRIBE, WHETHER THEY ARE RIGHT OR WRONG.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
13. “I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.”― Charles Barkley
14. “Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.”― Charles Barkley
15. “WHEN THE COPS ARE TRYING TO ARREST YOU, IF YOU FIGHT BACK, THINGS GO WRONG.”― CHARLES BARKLEY    
16. “Poor people are too stupid to know they’re just chess pieces in a game.”― Charles Barkley
17. “I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.”― Charles Barkley
18. “I’m a mad dog whose only concern is winning.”― Charles Barkley
19. “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.”― Charles Barkley
20. “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.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
21. “I’m never going to be one of those guys who gets on TV and yells and screams. That’s not how I do my business. But I’m very aware of social responsibility.”― Charles Barkley
22. “I’m willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.”― Charles Barkley
23. “My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.”― Charles Barkley
24. ’WAR EAGLE’ IS LIKE ‘I LOVE YOU.’”― CHARLES BARKLEY
25. “My perspective is never gonna change on that… We’ve got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, ‘Good luck in life.’ That’s just not right.”― Charles Barkley
26. “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.”― Charles Barkley
27. “The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.”― Charles Barkley“I’M NOT A ROLE MODEL… JUST BECAUSE I DUNK A BASKETBALL DOESN’T MEAN I SHOULD RAISE YOUR KIDS.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
28. “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
29. “You can’t sit on the sidelines of life.”― Charles Barkley
30. “We only put the negative black people on television. We don’t put the good, hard-working black people.”― Charles Barkley
31. “Racism is here and will always exist, but we can’t use it as a crutch.”― Charles Barkley
32. “You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”― Charles Barkley“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.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
33. “I am a big pro-choice guy.”― Charles Barkley
34. “I love New York City; I’ve got a gun.”― Charles Barkley
35. “My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.”― Charles Barkley
36. “I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.”― Charles Barkley
37. “We’re not all supposed to think alike.”― Charles Barkley
38. “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.”― Charles Barkley
39. “NOBODY DOESN’T LIKE MEAT.”― CHARLES BARKLEY   
40. “We’re the only ethnic group that says, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’”― Charles Barkley
41. “Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we’re never going to be successful – not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.”― Charles Barkley
42. “Golf is fun – until you hit somebody in the head.”― Charles Barkley
43. “IT’S INTERESTING – THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, WE SHOULDN’T HAVE PEOPLE STARVING. WE SHOULDN’T HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE NOT GETTING SOMETHING TO EAT.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
44. “One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.”― Charles Barkley
45. “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.”― Charles Barkley
46. “Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”― Charles Barkley
47. “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.”― Charles Barkley
48. “I wish the American public wasn’t so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.”― Charles Barkley
49. “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
50. “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
51. “I don’t care what people think. People are stupid.”― Charles Barkley
52. “Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a while.”― Charles Barkley
53. “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.”― Charles Barkley
54. “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.”― Charles Barkley
55. “I’m no role model.”― Charles Barkley
56. “We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.”― Charles Barkley
57. “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
58. “I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.”― Charles Barkley
59. “Just because you say something doesn’t make it controversial, and it doesn’t make you a bad person.”― Charles Barkley
60. “What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.”― Charles Barkley
61. “It ain’t like we’re curing cancer or anything, we’re watching basketball.”― Charles Barkley
62. “I THINK YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO BE HONEST.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
63. “I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I’ll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.”― Charles Barkley
64. “See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious.”― Charles Barkley
65. “Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.”― Charles Barkley
66. “One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.”― Charles Barkley
67. “LOOK, I’M IN THE TOP 20 OF PLAYERS WHO EVER LIVED.”― CHARLES BARKLEY   
68. “I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.”― Charles Barkley
69. “But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.”― Charles Barkley
70. “We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.”― Charles Barkley
71. “I can’t believe anything I hear on television anymore.”― Charles Barkley
72. “We can’t pick out certain incidentals that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad… Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?”― Charles Barkley
73. “I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration… it does them a disservice.”― Charles Barkley
74. “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.”― Charles Barkley
75. “IF I’M GOING TO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD, LIKE I ALWAYS TRY TO BE, I KNOW GUYS ARE GOING TO COME BACK AT ME SOMETIMES.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
76. “I’m not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.”― Charles Barkley
77. “Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.”― Charles Barkley
78. “There’s no such thing as a vegetarian.”― Charles Barkley
79. “Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.”― Charles Barkley
80. “LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he’s a drama queen.”― Charles Barkley
81. “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.”― Charles Barkley
82. “Roy Moore was an embarrassment.”― Charles Barkley
83. “I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.”― Charles Barkley
84. “The president of the United States should not be tweeting.”― Charles Barkley
85. “RACISM EXISTS, BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS START A DIALOGUE.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
86. “I’m not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.”― Charles Barkley
87. “What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.”― Charles Barkley
88. “I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.”― Charles Barkley
89. “People like you as long as you agree with them. But that doesn’t bother me.”― Charles Barkley
90. “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.”― CHARLES BARKLEY
91. “I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.”― Charles Barkley
92. “My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.”― Charles Barkley
93. “If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.”― Charles Barkley
94. “If you get a chance to play with great players, that’s half the battle.”― Charles Barkley
95. “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.”― Charles Barkley
96. “We need the cops, especially in the black community.”― Charles Barkley
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98. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID THAT: ‘WE AS BLACK PEOPLE, IF YOU WANT RESPECT, YOU HAVE TO GIVE EACH OTHER RESPECT.’ YOU CAN’T DEMAND RESPECT FROM WHITE PEOPLE AND THE COPS IF WE DON’T RESPECT EACH OTHER.”― CHARLES BARKLEY 
99. “I respect and admire what cops do.”― Charles Barkley
100. “As a fan, I don’t want to have my team out of it by Day 1.”― Charles Barkley
101. “I have voted Democrat my entire life.”― Charles Barkley
102. “Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.”― Charles Barkley
103. “We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.”― Charles Barkley
104. “I think people got more common sense than people give ’em credit for.”― Charles Barkley
105. “I don’t stand for anti-Semitism. We can’t have that.”― Charles Barkley