Charles Barkley believes it's time for him to make the switch from television to the front office of an NBA team.

"It's time for me to be a general manager," Barkley told the Boston Globe. "I think everybody around me knows it's time for me to take a different challenge.

"I always want to keep going as a person. I love my job. I love the people I work with. But now it's time for me to take on another challenge as a man. I need to grow as a person and it's time for me.

"And certainly I can do a better job than some of these guys have been doing."

Barkley added that all he needs is an opportunity.

"If a good opportunity came up, I would take it," he said. "I think people sometimes get confused with taking a job and taking a bad job. Every job is not a good job, but I think if a good job came up, I would take it. But I am not going to leave TNT for no bad job."