Asked to comment on the 20th anniversary of the cocaine-overdose death of Len Bias,
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Charles Barkley: Citations en anglais
“I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.”
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,
Interview in the New York Post in October 2000. <br class="br">Notes: Although Barkley popularised the phrase, it was likely first used several months earlier http://www.snopes.com/quotes/chrisrock.asp by Chris Rock.
“Oklahoma is nothing but vast wasteland; no place for black people.”
As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
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.
“I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.”
Press conference before the USA played Angola in the 1st round of the 1992 Olympics.
“Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.”
From CNN interview, Nov 22 2004, following a fight between players and fans at a recent Pistons-Pacers game.
“Only poor people go to jail.”
From interview on Jim Rome show
“The Oklahoma Sooners and the Hornets are the only brothers in town.”
At the time of this comment, the NBA team then known as the New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) was playing in Oklahoma City following extensive damage to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. <br class="br">Source: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
“You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.”
From The Jay Leno Show, November 2009
“Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years… and they are still poor.”
Attributed to Charles Barkley in Walter W. Moore's Wise Sayings (2012), p. 89
