"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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"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.“
-Charles Barkley
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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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"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."
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"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."
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"See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious."
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"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."
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