Quotes from Charles Barkley

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.

Just because you watch 'Grey's Anatomy' doesn't mean you can do the operation.

I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

Every player has played with gay guys.

If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.'

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.