‘I Wish I could Put Some Of My Blackness Into Him’: Barkley on Tiger.


I’d at least buy the guy a drink first but not Charles Barkley, who dropped that clanger of a double entendre in addition to some other pretty great Barkley-isms while offering advice to former friend Tiger Woods on ESPN radio in Chicago. Barkley was referring to Greg Norman’s headline grabbing claim that Woods was now intimidated by Irish golfer Rory McIlroy .

I would like for him to just blast Greg Norman … That situation gave everybody a chance to dump on you, and (Tiger) still tried to take the high road. I’m not a high road guy. I want him to come out and really blast Greg Norman. … I wish he would just go ballistic on Greg … I wish I could put some of my blackness in him … like toughness … (I’ve been) arrested eight times for fighting … just because I’m Charles Barkley, you can’t disrespect me … you just can’t say anything to me anytime you want to …
Via Golf Digest.com

Barkley goes onto to recall how he told a judge that the only thing he regretted about throwing a fan through a window in a bar altercation, was that the bar was only on the first floor. Moral of the story, don’t fuck with Charles Barkley. For some genuine belly-laughs catch the entire the entire interview at CBS Sports

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