Quotes from Bradley Beal

I've always admired like everybody's skill like to tattoo. Like I've actually tattooed my best friend before. This is an experience for sure. Like, if I will really like take drawing seriously, I would consider being a tattoo artist. Like I love to just watch guys perfect their craft.

Tattoos are addictive.

I trust my teammates and everybody to step up and carry the load.

I didn't want to leave school early, honestly. I had just established relationships with my teammates and I knew people there and I didn't want to give that up and start something new.

I feel like the impact that you leave on others and your teammates and everybody around you is what's most important.

I just trust my teammates to be able to make the right play - I don't have to score every time I have the ball, or shoot the ball every time I have it.

I always tell myself, 'Nothing's perfect.'

I'm never mad about All-Star. It's guys who get snubbed every year who've proven they could be All-Stars. This league, there's 450 guys, and you're trying to pick 24 out of the group who are having a good year.

I've always had to grow up faster than what I am.

That's something I'm trying to be better at, fix my body language.

I was kind of ignorant. Being naive - 'who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won't count' - that's kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.

I've been pulled over with four hoopers in the car before and we've all been taken out and searched because we were black riding in a white neighborhood.

It just kind of puts you in awe a lot of times. To see fans, and especially kids, really want a bobblehead or really want your jersey, that's something you only dream of. Sometimes we take it for granted, don't understand the importance of it, how a little bobblehead can make somebody's day.

With confidence, you feel like you can pretty much do anything on the floor.

I'm honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.

Both the Wizards organization and the city of Washington have been committed to supporting me and my family since the day I was drafted and I feel blessed to be able to show my commitment back to them.

That's what I love so much about my family and friends, man. They continue to support me at the same time they keep me grounded and talk to me like I'm with them.

I would say a guy I always respect and admire is Dame. I always liked Dame's game. I watch him, just his work ethic.

Just been getting my faith life together, and I feel like that's honestly putting me at a place of peace to where I can play my game, have fun with it.

That's one thing I don't want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.

It takes a long time for me to just say 'I'm going to get a tat.' I really do my homework on it and make sure that it's perfect and the way I want it and make sure there's always meaning because I never get anything without meaning.

I really don't even know how to take a compliment honestly.

Basketball is basketball. And whether it's male, or female, or has any other label attached to it... that really doesn't matter to me. It really doesn't matter who's playing. Hoop is hoop. Game is game. If you have it, I'll recognize it. Period.

I'm a silent assassin - I can say that.