"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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"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.“
-Charles Barkley
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