~ Charles Barkley Quotes ~

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Charles Barkley Quotes


A former American professional basketball player.
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is 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 (NBA's) most dominating power forwards.[1] 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 Third Team. He earned eleven NBA All-Star Game appearances and was named the All-Star MVP in 1991. In 1993, he was voted the league's Most Valuable Player and during the NBA's 50th anniversary, named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. He competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic games and won two gold medals as a member of the United States' Dream Team.In 2006, Barkley was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Here are some famous quotes by Charles Barkley.

I love New York City, I've got a gun.

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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them 'Hey I'm rich'.

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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.