Top 100 Barkley's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley
#8. I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
Brad Barkley
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.
Charles Barkley
#15. Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
Charles Barkley
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey.
Charles Barkley
#20. The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley
#21. He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
Charles Barkley
#22. He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
Charles Barkley
#23. Okay, Ella. Is it possible for you to be any more vague?"
"Maybe," I say, smiling at her.
Brad Barkley
#24. If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest
Charles Barkley
#25. 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
#26. 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
#28. I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.
Charles Barkley
#29. This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
Charles Barkley
#30. It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.
Charles Barkley
#31. When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.
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
#33. It's the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
Charles Barkley
#34. I want her to understand that it's going to be a factor in her life. I just want her to know that (racism) does exist, and I want her to always be diligent, and if she sees it, address it and fight it.
Charles Barkley
#35. I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.
Charles Barkley
#36. I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.
Charles Barkley
#37. Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.
Charles Barkley
#38. See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
Charles Barkley
#39. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.
Charles Barkley
#40. I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
Charles Barkley
#41. I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
Charles Barkley
#42. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles Barkley
#43. They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.
Charles Barkley
#44. You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.
Charles Barkley
#45. If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.
Charles Barkley
#46. Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.
Charles Barkley
#48. We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
Charles Barkley
#49. I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.
Charles Barkley
#50. Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.
Brad Barkley
#51. I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
Charles Barkley
#52. I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.
Charles Barkley
#53. 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
#54. Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
Charles Barkley
#55. We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
Charles Barkley
#56. Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.
Charles Barkley
#57. I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.
Charles Barkley
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Charles Barkley
#63. The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways
Russell Barkley
#64. Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
Charles Barkley
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.
Charles Barkley
#69. I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
Charles Barkley
#70. I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.
Brad Barkley
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
Charles Barkley
#75. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
Alben W. Barkley
#84. I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley
#85. 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
#86. Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.
Charles Barkley
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cause you were too close, kissing his!
Charles Barkley
#92. I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
Charles Barkley
#93. You couldn't do it with him because Rhodes wasn't the one ... Furious Barkley is. Furi
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#94. There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.
Charles Barkley
#95. If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
Charles Barkley
#96. If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
Charles Barkley
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.
Brad Barkley
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