Charles Barkley: Going

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“I'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.”

Charles Barkley

Asked to comment on the 20th anniversary of the cocaine-overdose death of Len Bias,

“I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.”

Charles Barkley

Barkley's response to Tonya Harding calling herself "the Charles Barkley of figure skating", quoted in They Said It, Sports Illustrated, February 7, 1994 http://www.si.com/vault/1994/02/07/130420/they-said-it,

“I can't screw up Alabama… We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.”

Charles Barkley

About running for governor of Alabama, on Campbell Brown, CNN, October 27, 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/27/brown.barkley/index.html.

“Only poor people go to jail.”

Charles Barkley

From interview on Jim Rome show