Charles Barkley Athlete Quotations

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

I don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

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.