Top 66 JaVale McGee Quotes

My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I’ll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I’ll do that also.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.

I block shots and stay out the way.

Being on a team with four All-Stars is unheard of.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they’re gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it’s backwards.

If you’re just dunking by yourself, it’s really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone – then you feel like you’re demoralizing them.

I’m not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody’s in front of me. That’s the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it’s a wide-open dunk, I’ve never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, ‘What if you stop growing?’

Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.

I think about all the time how I’ll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I’ll be able to say I won championships with those players.

I just want to contribute to our wins.

I don’t feel like I’m influenced by anybody, but I feel I’m definitely becoming more a leader.

I’m JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I’m just really passionate about music and I don’t want people to look at it like ‘Oh he’s just doing it to get famous.’ I’m already pretty famous as is, so I’m not really trying to do it for the money.

I’m a multi-skilled big.

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it’s crazy how I deflect it.

I’ll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn’t feel like ‘Oh man I’ve got a job to do.’ It’s more like ‘Oh man I didn’t even realize I’ve been there this long.’

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

I don’t see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I’m dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

For breakfast, I’ll have some oatmeal, avocado toast, and a shake.

I chose basketball over film.

I try to bring positivity to the team.

It’s just crazy the way people portray me.

I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.

People around the NBA really think that I’m dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I’m actually very intelligent.

I just do whatever I want to do.

I can pass and I can shoot and I can do some other things also.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

I have extreme ADD.

I’ve always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I’m dunking and laying the ball up.

Usually I’m nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.

I’m just going to try to get as many rebounds as possible.

I feel like in the course of my career, I’ve been in the iPhone era and the dilution of the big man.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I’m injury-prone, which isn’t true. You just don’t know me.

Everything I do is premeditated.

It’s definitely more important to finish games than start games.

I don’t think people understand how good LeBron is.

I feel like big men don’t like it when they’re getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.

I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I’m tall, lanky and athletic.

If I get traded, I get traded. It’s a part of the business.

I love being around positive people and making people smile.

As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.

If you can’t breathe, you can’t do nothing.

I’m not boring.

I’m actually good friends with Diplo, and we’ve talked about collab’ing.

My career was dwindling down and I got to be in Golden State for two years and show I still have it.

You’ve just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team… and all the rest is just fluff.

I’m not afraid to fail – at all.

I’ve been the same goofy guy I’ve been this whole time.

I’m definitely excited about getting better.

It’s low-key depressing when you’re not winning.

Personally I’m just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.

It’s all love in L.A. The fans are great.

Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.

I wish I could do more in Flint but they estimated the amount that it would cost to fix Flint and it would be a little over $1 billion and I’m definitely not a billionaire. It’s extremely heartbreaking the way the city is being treated in my opinion.

I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn’t sure if I could do it.

When I do things, I just fully commit to it.

I definitely have to focus more and think more on what exactly I’m doing, rather than just use my athleticism.

The best thing when you get pneumonia is rest – that’s it, just rest.

I guess I’m a utility player where I can do it all.

We call Michael Beasley a walking bucket. All he needs is some dishwater and a mop.

During the season, the main focus is always basketball.

Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.

Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.

I don’t even believe in hope. I just let it happen.

It’s just a reassuring feeling, a confidence-builder I guess, knowing that you’re going into a situation wanted as an option, like you’re really wanted.