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I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Basketball
Fun
Spring
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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 / Basketball Player
Silly
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I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Nba
Airport
Sleeping
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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.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Conquer
Conservative
Rich
Rich People
Television
Ask
Me People Will
Words
Answer
Divide
Give
Liberal
Question
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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 / Basketball Player
Do You Know
Cops
Neighborhoods
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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 / Basketball Player
Flew
Nba
Play Basketball
Row
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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 / Basketball Player
People Way Know
Forgive
Gonna
Screw
Some People
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I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Sports
War
Tired
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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.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Appropriate
Inappropriate
Locker Room
Dictate
Locker
Racial
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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 / Basketball Player
Daughter
Running
Basketball
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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 / Basketball Player
Demand
Cops
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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 / Basketball Player
Kids
Basketball
Growing Up
Best Business Great
Grow Up
Regular People
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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 / Basketball Player
Jobs
Teacher
Real
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Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
College
Guy
Voting
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On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
America
Basketball
Philadelphia
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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 / Basketball Player
Basketball
Fighting
Racism
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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 / Basketball Player
Gay
Long
People
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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 / Basketball Player
Wise
Country
Successful
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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 / Basketball Player
Friends
Negative
Notion
Great Always Me
Casually
Cordial
Great Me Always
Lebron
Met
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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 / Basketball Player
Blame
Easy
Good Job
Poor
Reason
White
Job
Life Good Look
Exploiting
Republicans
Look
Hispanics
Mirror
My Life
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If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Million Dollars
Neighborhood
Thousand
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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 / Basketball Player
Good
Sports
Basketball
Handsome
Rebound
Rich
Shoes
Like
Good Me Handsome
Good Sports Me
Me
Make
Only
Definitely
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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 / Basketball Player
Men
Gay
Thinking
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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 / Basketball Player
Black
Brainwashed
Break
Enough
Good Grades
Grades
Idiot
Intelligent
Law
Reason
School
Speak
Thug
Person
Go
Some
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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.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Crooks
Distrust
Inherent
Innocent
Cops
Deliberately
Innocent People
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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 / Basketball Player
Mom
Basketball
Mother
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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 / Basketball Player
Basketball
Night
Years
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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 / Basketball Player
Athletics
Disservice
Doctors
Etc
Fireman
Officers
Police Officers
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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 / Basketball Player
Kids
Basketball
Successful
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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 / Basketball Player
Mom
Basketball
Fun
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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 / Basketball Player
Black
Democratic
Poor
Poor People
Voting
Life People Doing
Full
Either
Republicans
Neither
Parties
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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 / Basketball Player
Basketball
Mistake
Moving
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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 / Basketball Player
Basketball
People
Thinking
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I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Basketball
Class
Giving
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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 / Basketball Player
Daughter
Jobs
School
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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 / Basketball Player
Good Luck
Luck
Poor People
Take Care
Life Change Good
Better Job
Neighborhoods
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Sometimes I have to criticize guys to try to make it fun, I mean, I'm out there trying to bust other people. I want all these guys to do well, but when they do something stupid or don't play well, I try not to kill 'em, I try to make 'em laugh a little bit.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Fun
Mean
Stupid
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The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Nba
Player
Winning
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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 / Basketball Player
Sports
Crazy
Team
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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 / Basketball Player
Crap
Life Your Black
Unfortunately
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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 / Basketball Player
Legal
Agents
Cash
Making Money
Ncaa
Paid
Sneakers
Suits
Everybody
Buy
Dates
Everybody Else
Making
Talked
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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 / Basketball Player
Education
Believe
Stress
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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 / Basketball Player
Black
Felt
Hispanic
Light
Negative
Stuff
Television
Thug
Type
Years
Blowing
Gangster
Muslim
Portrayed
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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 / Basketball Player
Groups
Moral
Moral Responsibility
Old People
Take Care
Adult
Always Responsibility Your
No Control
Obviously
Young People
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I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Mom
Sports
Growing Up
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The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That's all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Running
War
Mean
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Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
New York
Team
Thinking
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I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.
Charles Barkley / Basketball Player
Running
War
Real
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