Charles Barkley citáty

Charles Barkley je bývalý americký basketbalista.

Počas svojej kariéry v NBA hral za nasledujúce tímy:



Philadelphia 76ers: 1984 – 1992

Phoenix Suns: 1992 – 1996

Houston Rockets: 1996 – 2000V roku 1993 bol vyhlásený za najužitočnejšieho hráča NBA. Je držiteľom dvoch zlatých medailí z olympijských hier – z Barcelony 1992 a Atlanty 1996. V roku 2006 bol uvedený do basketbalovej Siene slávy .

So svojou pomerne malou výškou sa preslávil ako vynikajúci obranca schopný získavať vysoký počet lôpt z doskoku. So svojou vysokou váhou v pomere k výške mal vynikajúcu pohyblivosť a vysoko nadpriemerný výskok.

Po ukončení profesionálnej basketbalovej kariéry sa zviditeľnil predovšetkým prehranou sumou v hazardných hrách a kurzových športových stávkach; sám hovorí v interview z roku 2006 o desiatich miliónoch amerických dolárov. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. február 1963
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“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,

“You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.”

Interview in the New York Post in October 2000.
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

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

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.

“I am not a role model.”

Series of Nike commercials

“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.
Zdroj: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman

“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

“Can I Play??”

Series of McDonald's commercials