Charles Barkley

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

On game days, I could be in the worst mood imagiable-a really bad mood. But sometimes, I'd get a call from the Make-A-Wish Foundation-there would be people, sometimes kids, who anted to meet me before they died. And the foundation would call on a game day and say, "There's kid dying here whose last wish is to see you. Can you just come and see him?" I'd get there and sometimes the kid would be comatose. One day, a kid woke up for a split second and smiled at me. I was told he'd been hanging on. The mom and dad called me later and said, "I don't know what yu did to him, but those few moments were wonderful." And I cried all the way to the game, just cried my eyes out.It's very scary. It's uplifting, too, but so scary. And then... I'm bitching because my breakfast is cold?