Charles Barkley

I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.

'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'

I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.'

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

I live in Arizona, and I don't like the way they treat Hispanics there.

I don't stand for anti-Semitism. We can't have that.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

One of the reasons I don't trust the media is you can't have a double standard for guys you like and dislike.