Explore Quotes by Charles Barkley

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

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.

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.

My message is simple: take control of your life

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.

Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.

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.

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.

Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

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.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

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.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

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.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds