Explore Quotes by Charles Barkley

I am a big pro-choice guy.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

The president of the United States should not be tweeting.

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.

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.

Every player has played with gay guys.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

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.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

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.

The NBA man, we have always been progressive.

People like you as long as you agree with them. But that doesn't bother me.

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.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

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.