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About Charles Barkley
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963, in Leeds, Alabama) is a former American basketball power forward. A current resident of Arizona, Barkley is commonly nicknamed Sir Charles and occasionally The Round Mound of Rebound. Barkley was named Most Valuable Player of the NBA in 1993. In 1996, the NBA's 50th anniversary, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Barkley won the Olympic gold medal with the U.S. Dream Teams in the 1992 and 1996 Games. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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βI was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.β
βIf youβre gay, bless you. If youβre transgender, bless you. If you have a problem with that, f--- you!β
βI can't screw up Alabama... We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.β
βI am not a role model. Iβm not paid to be a role model. Iβm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesnβt mean I should raise your kids.β
βI'd have played against him (Len Bias) for the next 14 years. I would have been in my prime and he would have been in his. I'll never forget what he looked like. He was a 'Wow!' player. When Maryland played and was on television, I watched. It was like, 'I need to watch this guy; I'll be seeing him real soon.' . . . It was just shocking. Thing is, cocaine was huge then. My brother had been in and out of rehab a few times. . . . It was a popular drug at the time. And guys I was playing against, like John Lucas and Michael Ray Richardson and John Drew had done cocaine. I was thinking: 'What the hell is up with this cocaine? I should try this once to see what it was all about.' Then, we heard the reports were that Bias only used it once . . . that it was his first time. When I heard that, it scared me to death . . . scared the daylights out of me. It scared me into not trying it even once, not going anywhere near it.β
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Charles Barkley on Divide and rule
βMan, I think most white people and Black people are great people. I really believe that in my heart, but I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether theyβre Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power. They divide and conquer... Whether theyβre Republicans or Democrats...their only job is, βHey, letβs make these people not like each other. We donβt live in their neighborhoods, we all got money, letβs make the whites and Blacks not like each other, letβs make rich people and poor people not like each other, letβs scramble the middle class.β
About Charles Barkley
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963, in Leeds, Alabama) is a former American basketball power forward. A current resident of Arizona, Barkley is commonly nicknamed Sir Charles and occasionally The Round Mound of Rebound. Barkley was named Most Valuable Player of the NBA in 1993. In 1996, the NBA's 50th anniversary, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Barkley won the Olympic gold medal with the U.S. Dream Teams in the 1992 and 1996 Games. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.