Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Barkley

I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

Charles Barkley

You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.

Charles Barkley

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Charles Barkley

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

Charles Barkley

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

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

Charles Barkley

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

Charles Barkley

I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.

Charles Barkley

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

Charles Barkley

I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'

Charles Barkley

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

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

Charles Barkley

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

Billy Bob Thornton

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

Bill James

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

Kevin Chamberlin

We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

Bridgette Wilson

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

Brad Stevens

The game honors toughness

Brad Stevens

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Brad Stevens

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

Brad Stevens

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Brad Stevens

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

Brad Stevens

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Brad Stevens

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

Brad Stevens

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Barry Goldwater

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

Barbara Bush

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Antonio Gates

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Antonio Gates

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

We used to have the gym rocking. Kids couldn't wait to get in there. You had to get in there early to get seats. In those days, the basketball team was making more money than the football team.

We set the game of basketball back 100 years tonight. We got guys doing one-on-one's. Urbandale played like a team tonight. We certainly didn't do what I taught them to do.

Tom Watson

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.