Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
— JaVale McGee
If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.
My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'
It's just crazy the way people portray me.
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'm hoping I'm remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.
I feel like in the course of my career, I've been in the iPhone era and the dilution of the big man.
I chose basketball over film.
I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I'm tall, lanky and athletic.
I feel like big men don't like it when they're getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.
Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.
If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.
It inspires me to see people who don't have much, but still give so much to others.
You've just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team... and all the rest is just fluff.
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 can pass and I can shoot and I can do some other things also.
It's definitely more important to finish games than start games.
You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.
I'm just going to try to get as many rebounds as possible.
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.
They see a blooper here and there, and they just think, 'Oh, he's dumb.' I mean, what can I do? I can't 'at' everyone on Twitter and tell them I'm not dumb. Because that looks dumb.
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.
I block shots and stay out the way.
I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.
Everything I do is premeditated.
I try to bring positivity to the team.
I'm just going to keep preparing for the best.
It's all love in L.A. The fans are great.
We call Michael Beasley a walking bucket. All he needs is some dishwater and a mop.
I'm not afraid to fail - at all.
I went through that phase in my life where everything I did wrong was displayed into the public and all over national TV, so I went through a part of my life where I was afraid to do things because I didn't want to make a mistake.
The best thing when you get pneumonia is rest - that's it, just rest.
I'm a multi-skilled big.
As long as I'm efficient, I'm just going to try to be the most efficient player I can be.
I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.
In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.
I've been the same goofy guy I've been this whole time.
I'm not really a confrontational person.
I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.
I definitely have to focus more and think more on what exactly I'm doing, rather than just use my athleticism.
People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.
I just want to contribute to our wins.
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.
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.
I'm definitely excited about getting better.
It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.
It was a really empowering thing playing with Golden State, because they let the players play and they let the players communicate and they let the players decide things.
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.
I don't think people really take pneumonia seriously when they hear it. But people really die from pneumonia: kids, older people, even just regular-aged people. They just die from pneumonia.
It's definitely a grind. Come to the gym early, leave late.
