Famous Quotes

"You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black."

Charles Barkley on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Charles Barkley

• "Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while."

• "You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black."

• "Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names."

• "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."

• "My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'."