Top 100 Barkley Quotes
#1. Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.
Edward M. Hallowell
#2. I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
Kanye West
#3. Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
Brendan I. Koerner
#4. In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.
John Amaechi
#5. You couldn't do it with him because Rhodes wasn't the one ... Furious Barkley is. Furi
A.E. Via
#6. Yet Barkley drew back. Perhaps he, like Harry Truman, knew that the quiet power of incumbency easily overcomes the noise of crowds and bands.
David Pietrusza
#7. I glanced at George half naked in his towel, then at Barkley, completely naked in his ... nothing. A vampire and a werewolf.
I shook my head. It was obvious. I was having one of my Anita Blake dreams again.
Michelle Rowen
#8. The longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley's death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was exactly 36 words long and took a matter of seconds.
Peter Marshall
#9. My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.
Paul Pierce
#11. I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
Eric Dickerson
#12. I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
Barbara Stanwyck
#13. Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
Warren Moon
#14. If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
Bob Arum
#15. Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.
Shannon Miller
#16. Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.
CeeLo Green
#17. Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#19. What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play ... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Charles Barkley
#20. You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
Charles Barkley
#21. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
Charles Barkley
#22. 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
#23. I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.
Brad Barkley
#24. I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
Charles Barkley
#25. I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.
Charles Barkley
#26. 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
#28. I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.
Charles Barkley
#29. Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
Charles Barkley
#30. The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways
Russell Barkley
#31. Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Charles Barkley
#32. 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
#34. I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.
Charles Barkley
#35. Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.
Charles Barkley
#36. We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
Charles Barkley
#37. Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
Charles Barkley
#38. 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
#39. Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.
Brad Barkley
#40. 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
#41. Hope never stands alone," he said in a dry, husky voice. "It is born of valor and perseverance. It rides the back of courage.
D. Barkley Briggs
#42. 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
#43. If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
Charles Barkley
#44. If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
Charles Barkley
#45. There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.
Charles Barkley
#46. I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
Charles Barkley
#47. Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cause you were too close, kissing his!
Charles Barkley
#48. White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.
Charles Barkley
#49. But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
Brad Barkley
#50. It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.
Charles Barkley
#52. Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.
Charles Barkley
#53. I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.
Charles Barkley
#54. I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley
#55. For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
Alben W. Barkley
#56. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
Charles Barkley
#62. I don't believe athletes should be role models ... We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models ... I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.
Charles Barkley
#63. They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.
Charles Barkley
#64. If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest
Charles Barkley
#65. Okay, Ella. Is it possible for you to be any more vague?"
"Maybe," I say, smiling at her.
Brad Barkley
#66. He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
Charles Barkley
#67. He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
Charles Barkley
#68. The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley
#69. Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey.
Charles Barkley
#70. I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
Charles Barkley
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
Charles Barkley
#74. If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.
Charles Barkley
#75. I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'
Charles Barkley
#76. Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.
Elizabeth F. Barkley
#77. All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.
Brad Barkley
#78. There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.
Charles Barkley
#79. 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
#80. I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
Brad Barkley
#81. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley
#82. People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.
Charles Barkley
#83. 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
#84. I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
Charles Barkley
#85. Jameson, the teacher who ran drama club, would call her name any minute to audition for the lead role! That
Callie Barkley
#86. America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.
Charles Barkley
#87. Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
Charles Barkley
#88. And maybe that's it- if your family is broken and ruined, go find another one, or better yet, go make another one.
Brad Barkley
#89. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Alben W. Barkley
#90. 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
#91. Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.
Russell Barkley
#92. This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
Charles Barkley
#93. 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
#94. I believe thinking about being old or even dying eradicates that fear. Fear can control you or you can control it; it's a conscious decision. A life lived with fear doesn't sound that enjoyable to me.
Peter James Barkley
#96. They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
Charles Barkley
#97. Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.
Charles Barkley
#98. I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.
Charles Barkley
#99. I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
Charles Barkley
#100. As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities.
Charles Barkley
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