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On the All-Star Game: "Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room." On his 17-year old daughter not dating yet: "Thank goodness. I just hope she doesn't start before I go in the Hall of Fame. That way, I won't have to kill anybody before I get inducted." On the goal of the '92 Olympic Dream Team when playing Panama in the Tournament of the Americas: "To get the Canal back."

Asked if he had ever been in the governor's office in Montgomery, Barkley said no. "They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama," he said, "unless they're cleaning."

"I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five."

Charles Barkley, American Basketball Legend, author of "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?".

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eBA 2009 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Hi ! It is Michael Jordan !

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The best of the Basketball Quotes: Silent Stars Speak !

"Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships."
Michael Jordan

"With one million or five, ten or hundred, still you can only eat once - lunch and dinner."
Drazen Petrovic

Drazen Petrovic in a Photograph from: Basketball Notes by Alex

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know."
Shaquille O'Neal

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The best of the Basketball Quotes: Silent Stars Speak !

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to (in answer to a question whether he visited the Parthenon while in Greece).... I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok...." — Shaquille O'Neal

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Legend

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"I learned to give him the ball".... (Magic Johnson's answer when he was asked about what he learned about the game of Basketball by playing with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

" I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...."
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a Basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming...."
"People say I enjoy being famous. I don't. But what choice do I have?..."
"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! ...."
(In a commercial for Basketball shoes) — Charles Barkley

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