Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by JaVale McGee
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete JaVale McGee.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I'm tall, lanky and athletic.
It inspires me to see people who don't have much, but still give so much to others.
It's definitely a grind. Come to the gym early, leave late.
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.
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.
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 feel like big men don't like it when they're getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.
As long as I'm efficient, I'm just going to try to be the most efficient player I can be.
I'm not really a confrontational person.
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.
Everything I do is premeditated.
People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.
I definitely have to focus more and think more on what exactly I'm doing, rather than just use my athleticism.
You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.
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'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 block shots and stay out the way.
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.
As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.
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.
Personally I'm just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.
It's just crazy the way people portray me.
You've just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team... and all the rest is just fluff.
I guess I'm a utility player where I can do it all.
I love being around positive people and making people smile.
I try to bring positivity to the team.
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.
The best thing when you get pneumonia is rest - that's it, just rest.
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.
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.
We call Michael Beasley a walking bucket. All he needs is some dishwater and a mop.
I'm hoping I'm remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.
It's all love in L.A. The fans are great.
If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.
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 chose basketball over film.
My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'
I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.
Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.
I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.
I don't do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I'm all about positivity and making people smile is positive.
It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.
It's definitely more important to finish games than start games.
Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.
I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.
In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.
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.
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'm just going to keep preparing for the best.
I'm definitely excited about getting better.
If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.
I'm a multi-skilled big.
I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.
I'm not afraid to fail - at all.
I've been the same goofy guy I've been this whole time.
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