Quotes by Javale Mcgee - Page 2

Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
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April
Playoffs
Nowhere
Near
Regular Season
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Some people think I'm dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I'm bored.
Javale Mcgee /
Bored
Dumb
Done People Feel
Purposely
Some People
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I feel like big men don't like it when they're getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.
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Aggressive
Staying
Smaller
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Frustrated
Onto
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People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.
Javale Mcgee /
Dumb
Intelligent
Nba
Stupid Me People
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I don't do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I'm all about positivity and making people smile is positive.
Javale Mcgee /
Malicious
Positivity
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I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.
Javale Mcgee /
Percent
Produce
Except
Realize
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If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.
Javale Mcgee /
Propaganda
Believing
Start Believing
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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.
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Demoralizing
Special
Feel
Dunk
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Dallas
If I Could
Gained
Quickest Way
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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.
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Reassuring
Option
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Communicate
Empowering
Golden
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Dumb
Looks
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Championships
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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.
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Older People
Pneumonia
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Floor
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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.
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Defense
Golden
Moving Away
Nba
Standard
Switch
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Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash 'em, and then the next time I go in, I'll make like six beats - six legit, nice beats. I'm really particular with how it needs to sound.
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Beats
Next Time
Trash
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Landscape
Blocking
Defer
Rim
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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.
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Producer
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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.'
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Time Music Man
Producing
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Dumb
Mess
Life Me People
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Life Mistake My Life
Displayed
Phase
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Broken
Broken Promises
Grew
Michigan
Planning
Ahead
Flint
Forward
Promises
Trips
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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.
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Flashy
Only Time
Scream
Time Me Never
Time Me Real
Dunk
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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.
Javale Mcgee /
Heartbreaking
Billion
Estimated
Flint
In My Opinion
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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.
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Basketball Player
Funny Guy
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