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" I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball. "
Michael Beasley
Basketball
Man
Stop
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" I'm a real laid-back person. "
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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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Feel
Funny
" Money doesn't always define basketball. "
Michael Beasley
Money
Always
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. "
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Basketball
Game
" My favorite thing from my childhood is video games. "
Michael Beasley
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Childhood
Favorite
" I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations. "
Michael Beasley
Well
Pressure
Awkward
" Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure. "
Michael Beasley
Pressure
Like
Feel
" One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though. "
Michael Beasley
Me
Car
Purpose
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Man
People
Time
" The older you get, the more your body starts to reject certain things. "
Michael Beasley
You
Body
More
" Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself - those are four guys that can score 25 points per game. "
Michael Beasley
Score
Game
Four
" I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired. "
Michael Beasley
Tired
School
Drop
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Proud
Perfect
You
" I'm not a chocolate man. I'm Skittles, anything made by Wonka. You know, I like candy, not chocolate. "
Michael Beasley
Like
Man
You
" I'm all about my love for the game. "
Michael Beasley
Love
Game
About
" Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket. "
Michael Beasley
Look
Point
Walking
" By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5. "
Michael Beasley
Us
Time
Cooking
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Professional
Realize
Come
" I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today. "
Michael Beasley
Love
You
Wake Up
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
World
Trouble
Best
" If you can't be honest with yourself, then you can't be honest with anybody. "
Michael Beasley
Yourself
Honest
Anybody
" I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State. "
Michael Beasley
Kansas
Get
Go
" I've always been the quiet, not-stand-up-for-myself kind of guy. "
Michael Beasley
Kind
Been
Always
" If you're only using 10 percent of your brain, you don't even know that you're using 10 percent of your brain. If you're only using 10 percent of something, that means you don't know the rest of the 90! "
Michael Beasley
Brain
Your
You
" A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be. "
Michael Beasley
Perception
People
I Am
" The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media. "
Michael Beasley
Media
Best
Ball
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Team
Score
Defense
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Respect
Play
Past
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Practice
Home
Game
" 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. "
Michael Beasley
Know
You
See