A biography for Michael Beasleyhasn’t been written yet.
“I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.”
“Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself - those are four guys that can score 25 points per game.”
“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.”
“My favorite thing from my childhood is video games.”
“I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.”
“I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.”
“I'm all about my love for the game.”
“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.”
“My favorite restaurant in the Twin Cities is McDonalds. I order two cheeseburgers, two snack wraps with no sauce, two fish fillets with cheese and light tartar sauce, two large fries, two apple pies, and one large milkshake.”
“If you can't be honest with yourself, then you can't be honest with anybody.”
“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!”
“The older you get, the more your body starts to reject certain things.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“I've always been the quiet, not-stand-up-for-myself kind of guy.”
“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.”