Michael Beasley

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm your favorite player's favorite player.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.”

“I'm a real laid-back person.”

“Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.”

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

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

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

“I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.”

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

“Money doesn't always define basketball.”

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

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

“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.”