Outrageous!

Description for OUTRAGEOUS! THE FINE LIFE AND FLAGRANT GOOD TIMES OF BASKETBALL'S IRRESISTIBLE FORCE by Charles Barkley and Roy S Johnson:

Every night of the NBA Season, Charles Barkley defies the laws of physics on the court and the unwritten laws of good-boy public relations off it. Whether he's bumping heads and chests with a teammate to celebrate a fierce rebound (or foul), or talking trash at the NBA's elite ("Hello, Larry? I'm Charles. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare for the next ten years."), or sending roses and a limo for a seventy-three-year-old grandmother who criticized him on a radio talk show, or blasting teammates, coaches, opponents, and his team's owner in the postgame comments that annually win him the MQP (Most Quotable Player) Award, no one in sports has more fun than the man they call Sir Charles. (They used to call the Round Mound of Rebound, but would you call him that to his face?)

OUTRAGEOUS! is Barkley's own look at the experiences and exploits that have kept him at the center of so much controversy. In his characteristic no-holds-barred fashion, Barkley gives his views on:

Fines: "The league says it uses some of the money (it collects in fines) to purchase food for needy children. If that's true, then my contributions alone should assure that there aren't any more hungry kids left in the world."

Rebounding: "I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. 'I've gota a technique,' I always say. 'It's called Just Go Get the Damn Ball!'"

Life on the road: "It's no secret that life as a professional athlete means never having to spend the night alone, not even if you're the ugliest, scrawniest, no-playingest rookie on the Nets or Clippers. That's one of the reasons why most rookies crawl through their first pro season, particularly the last thirty or so games of the season. An NBA season on the road will kill a rookie faster than kryptonite kills Superman."

On being a role model: "professional athletes should not be role models. How the hell does an athlete qualify for the job? If the only qualification is that you have to be able to dunk a basketball, then I know millions of people who could become role models. Hell, I know drug dealers who can dunk. Can drug dealers be role models too?"

Filled with insights into his game and his life, loaded with swipes at players, fans, refs, and the men who run the NBA, this book, like the man himself, can only be described in one word: outrageous!