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Michael Beasley Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1989

Topics

Future Opportunity Respect Past Play

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

Jim Kelly

Good Me Attention Down Always Been

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

Merce Cunningham

Myself Day Push Giving Trying Find

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Michelle Gomez

People Deep Laugh Way Fix Quick

I trust myself, the way I prepare. I feel like I know what I'm doing.

Lizzie Armitstead

Myself Trust Feel Doing Know Way

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

Judith Ellen Foster

Work Women Today Time Woman Country

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

Jason Dolley

Day People Loved Kind One Day Kid

There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for a good gym.

Jason Earles

Good Waiting Me Looking Gym Go

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work Good Time Long Long Time Rare

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

Johnny Van Zant

Future Will Bring Who Knows Heck

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

Time Poetry Attention You Say Twice

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Chuck Jones

Change Innovation Art Useless Must

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

Love Birthday Gift More Giver Than