Quotes from JaVale McGee

I have extreme ADD.

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

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.

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

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

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 definitely excited about getting better.

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.

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

I just want to contribute to our wins.

I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.

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

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.

I'm just a big kid, basically. I love to have fun.

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

I'm hoping I'm remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.

Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.

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.

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

I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.

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

It inspires me to see people who don't have much, but still give so much to others.

I'm on Instagram, and all my fans on my Instagram are basketball fans - like 90 percent.