In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

6 rebounds per game in the 1965-66 season. He has one daughter Shannon. Featured on the August 24 1970 cover of Sports Illustrated in a Squires jersey he indicated that he would not return to the NBA if the league paid him "a million dollars a year.

Longtime NBA writer Paul Ladewski has referred to him as Ricky Balboa a reference to Rocky Balboa the prize fighter of motion picture fame who was at his best in the face of long odds. In 1987 Barry was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.