LeBron James Quotes

I'm feeling better after the game than I did when I came off the floor with cramps ... I was going to try to give it a go, and 'Spo said 'No.' You know, after I came out of the game, they kind of took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not being able to help the team.

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

I don't read books much.

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.

You can't let nobody run your train.

If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to this city and what our team means to this city, but I don't get caught up in it. I just try to go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and my franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.

The group of guys I have ... They are playing off straight motivation.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

I'm just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn't hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

Obviously I'm not getting much sleep. You guys can see I'm not getting much sleep right now, but I'm OK with that. I'm OK with not sleeping to be able to prepare myself and mentally keep myself intact on what's the main objective for me right now.

These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.

If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

We have an opportunity to get better.

I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

As a man, if you got a problem with somebody, you sit down face to face and you talk to them eye to eye. And you hash it out and move on,

I went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron James

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron.

I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.

I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved ... or star in a movie.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It's where I walked. It's where I ran. It's where I cried. It's where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart.

I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

I'm not about saving franchises.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.

We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

The same way you slow me down. You can't.

I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

I'm confident with my ability.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

As loud as they were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night. We need you guys to get those voices right. But they're gonna be unbelievable Thursday night as well. Those guys, everyone, they're amazing.

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.