At some point, I don't want to have any obligation. And just chill out.
Charles Barkley
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
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.
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.
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.
Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.
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.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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.
Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.
I do not use words like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' You can ask me a question, and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.
The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.
Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.
There's no such thing as a vegetarian.
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.
'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'
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.
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.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
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?
Just because you watch 'Grey's Anatomy' doesn't mean you can do the operation.
If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.
I don't care what people think. People are stupid.
You can't sit on the sidelines of life.
We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.
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.
I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
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.
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.
Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.
If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.
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.
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.
Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.
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.
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.
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.
I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.
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.
Nobody doesn't like meat.
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
