"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.“


-Charles Barkley

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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.

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