Here's Charles Barkley Speaking More Truth About Life In A Sit Down Interview

1/08/2015 7:30 PM

Anytime you have the opportunity to hear Chuck candidly talk about anything, you should shut up and listen. Here he sits down and discusses everything from his fractured relationship with Michael Jordan and NBA players making too much money to his future in broadcasting and what he thought about people calling him fat nicknames at Auburn. The dude speaks the truth about everything, on camera or not. To refresh, here are our top 10 Sir Charles Quotes Of All-Time leading into the clips (after the jump). I need to have a beer or 30 with this man.

Top 10 Charles Barkley Quotes of All-Time:

10. “I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I’d work for the Klan.”

9. 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.”

8. Charles Barkley after seeing a picture of Sam Cassell on the screen: “Phone home.” And later he remarks to Kenny, “Sam Cassell is a good guy, but he’s not going to wind up on the cover of GQ anytime soon.”

7. 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.”

6. “When I was recruited at Auburn [university], they took me to a strip joint. When I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.”

5. On Jerry Krause still being able to keep his job as GM of the Chicago Bulls: “Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss’s wife having sex with a monkey.”

4a. On national TV on Valentines day: “I’d never buy my girl a watch… she’s already got a clock over the stove.”

4b. “If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she’s ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can’t play a lick. Same thing.”

3. After an Olympic Dream Team victory over Angola, in which they won 116-48, Charles got into a physical altercation with a member of Angola towards the end of the game, afterwards he says, “Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a couple weeks. I thought he was going to pull a spear on me.”

2. After retiring from basketball: “I’m just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

1. After throwing a guy through a 1st floor window in a bar Charles was in front of the judge.

Judge: “Your sanctions are community service and a fine, do you have any regrets?”

Charles: “Yeah I regret we weren’t on a higher floor”

Life at Auburn and his fat nicknames: