Charles Barkley Quotes

I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

What a nice mob you press fellows are--wholesale scavengers!

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an indirect tribute.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

Everybody is entitled to an honest opinion.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.

I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.

Honestly, it's hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but we must respect the decisions from the officials.

I try not to make personal attacks on people - unless they're deserving.

This millennial generation... you guys seem so entitled.

We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.