Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley
Charles Wade Barkleyis an American retired professional basketball player and current analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. Nicknamed "Chuck", "Sir Charles", and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominating power forwards. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 5th pick of the 1984 NBA draft. He was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times, the All-NBA Second Team five times, and once to the All-NBA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 February 1963
CityLeeds, AL
CountryUnited States of America
We were hoping to try for a top five in the points and now we're trying to hold on for a top 10,
We're not all supposed to think alike.
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.
I'm never embarassed.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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.
There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.
They open their hearts, they opened their arms so many people involved in this whole situation, and I just thank GOD that they're doing that for these people. It's a really unfortunate thing uh it's the lost thing that ever happened in my lifetime.
If you get a standing ovation for getting 12 points, there is something wrong. If I had scored 12 points, I would have gotten booed out of the building. My mother and grandmother would have called cussing me out.
He just hasn't played well. He can not play well.
I'll give you three putts, and if you make one of them, I'll give your First Tee $25,000.
He would really be thrilled with some of the racial advances that have been made, but he would be really disappointed in the way some people act.
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.