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" A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be. "
Michael Beasley
Perception
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" I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own. "
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" 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. "
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" Money doesn't always define basketball. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball. "
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" 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. "
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" I've come to realize I'm a professional, no matter if I'm 38, no matter if I'm 19 or 20. I'm a professional. "
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" I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me. "
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" 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. "
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" I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant. "
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" Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself - those are four guys that can score 25 points per game. "
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" I'm your favorite player's favorite player. "
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" The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media. "
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" I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today. "
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" I'm a real laid-back person. "
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" At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State. "
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" I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired. "
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" 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. "
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" By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5. "
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" Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure. "
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" I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. "
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" 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. "
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" Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket. "
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" 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. "
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