Quotes from Michael Beasley

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.

Growing up, I ate a lot of candy. If you were my dentist, you would know that, you know, but I eat a lot of candy, so from eight to probably, like, 15, you wouldn't see me without a pack of Skittles.

I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.

My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today.

Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.

I'm not a chocolate man. I'm Skittles, anything made by Wonka. You know, I like candy, not chocolate.

I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media.

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

One weird thing about me: I come home from practice or a game or whatever, and somehow my left sock always seems to get off my foot, and I end up walking around with one sock on.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side.

I tell people all the time like, man, when you a kid, you don't know you're in the hood, or you don't know you poor. You just accepting your environment when you a child, and that's when your friends are really your friends, wholeheartedly and nothing malicious.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself - those are four guys that can score 25 points per game.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.