JaVale McGee

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I try to bring positivity to the team.

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

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.

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

I'm not really a vengeful person.