Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on Inside the NBA. Nicknamed “Chuck”, “Sir Charles”, and “The Round Mound of Rebound”, Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association’s most dominant power forwards.

An All-American center at Auburn, he was drafted as a junior by the Philadelphia 76 ers with the 5th pick of the 1984 NBA draft. He was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times, the All-NBA Second Team five times, and once to the All-NBA Third Team.

Date of birth:
20th February, 1963
"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
Topic(s): Sports
"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It’s positively a dump."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Positive
"See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Hope
"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
Topic(s): Good
"My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Family
"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."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Famous
"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
Topic(s): Education
"You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Best
"Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a while."
― Charles Barkley
Topic(s): Anger

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