LeBron James quotes

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.
-- LeBron James

#Careers #Cleveland #Return

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.
-- LeBron James

#World #Care #I Care

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Home #Challenges

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.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Team #Hard Work

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Ohio #Years

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.
-- LeBron James

#Nba #Teammate #Facts

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Team #School

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Hurt #Games

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.
-- LeBron James

#Practice #Games #Helping

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.
-- LeBron James

#Blessed #Men #Track

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
-- LeBron James

#Hate #Loss #Winning

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.
-- LeBron James

#Mean #Priorities #Just Being

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
-- LeBron James

#Inspiration #Tools #Use

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

#Basketball #Girl #Play

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
-- LeBron James

#School #Grades #Fourth Grade

My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.
-- LeBron James

#Memories #Who I Am #Childhood

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

#Nba #Firsts #Court

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.
-- LeBron James

#Achievement #Teammate #Individual

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Nike

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.
-- LeBron James

#Sports #Team #Athlete

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
-- LeBron James

#Dream #Winning #Nba Championships

I learn from winning, because it's much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win.
-- LeBron James

#Winning #Thinking #Easier

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

#Basketball #Laughing #Distracted

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.
-- LeBron James

#Track #Able #Fields

I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I'm gonna give back.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Giving #Levels

Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Block #Sacrifice

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.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Selfish #Cocky

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

#Morning #Mirrors #Looks

I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Want

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.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Team #Mean

When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.
-- LeBron James

#Fun #Two #Track

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.
-- LeBron James

#Play #Guy #Trying

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.
-- LeBron James

#Beach #Talent #South Beach

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

#Sports #Drug #Way

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

#Home #School #Ohio

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Inspiration #Way

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
-- LeBron James

#Motivational #Basketball #Games

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

#Basketball #Inspiration #Night

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
-- LeBron James

#Motivation

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
-- LeBron James

#Kids #Winner

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

#Teammate

I like criticism. It makes you strong.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Strong #Inspiration

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? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
-- LeBron James

#Morning #Father #Believe

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Lasts #Last Day

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Sleep #Games

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

#Basketball #Games #Play

Cleveland fans are awesome.
-- LeBron James

#Cleveland #Fans #Social Media

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.
-- LeBron James

#Inspiration #Decision #The End Of The Day

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Failure #Inspiration

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.
-- LeBron James

#Speed #Court #Aggressiveness

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
-- LeBron James

#Ohio #Given

I just bring the determination to win.
-- LeBron James

#Determination #Winning

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
-- LeBron James

#Sports #Way #Succeed

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
-- LeBron James

#Volleyball #Practice #Strikers

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Mom #Inspiration

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Thinking #Who I Am

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

#Team #Thinking #Firsts

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.
-- LeBron James

#Solo

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.
-- LeBron James

#Years #Finals #Lasts

He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself.
-- LeBron James

#Team #Winning #Games

I don't read books much.
-- LeBron James

#Book

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.
-- LeBron James

#Funny #Nba #Games

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

#School #High School #Battle

I like being around people.
-- LeBron James

#People

We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.
-- LeBron James

#Funny #Nba #Way

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

#Games #Names #Oscars

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
-- LeBron James

#Growing Up #Struggle #Growing

But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.
-- LeBron James

#Guy #Together #Mentor

I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.
-- LeBron James

#Nba Championships #Goal #Cleveland

I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one, and I take that very seriously.
-- LeBron James

#Responsibility #Way #Lead In

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.'
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Mistake #Moving

We have an opportunity to get better.
-- LeBron James

#Opportunity #Get Better

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

#Effort #Good Enough #Enough

I'm not about saving franchises.
-- LeBron James

#Saving

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

#Basketball #Teammate #Succeed

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
-- LeBron James

#Love #Heart #People

I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it's helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don't know. I'm not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me.
-- LeBron James

#Yoga #Curves #Doe

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.
-- LeBron James

#Beach #Fall #Miami

I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.
-- LeBron James

#Team #Thinking #Miami

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.
-- LeBron James

#Frustrated #Mind #Want

Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the bizarre to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Giving Up #Commitment

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,
-- LeBron James

#Crazy #Ideas #Saws

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?
-- LeBron James

#Believe #Inspiration #Commitment

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
-- LeBron James

#Men #Way #Spirituality

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
-- LeBron James

#Catholic #Doers

There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league. There is no room for him.
-- LeBron James

#League #Rooms

That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, ’You're just a very low-maintenance guy’. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Mom #Mother

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.
-- LeBron James

#Missing You #Distance #Looks

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.
-- LeBron James

#Sorry #People #Answers

I can't worry about what other people say.
-- LeBron James

#People #Worry

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.
-- LeBron James

#Yoga #Mind #Technique

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

#Want #Succeed #Obstacles

I spoil a lot of people with my play,
-- LeBron James

#Play #People #Spoil

A kid with a dream from Akron Ohio. Now chopping it up with the Prez. Life is Good
-- LeBron James

#Dream #Kids #Life Is Good

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.
-- LeBron James

#Athlete #Thinking #Rose

The best teacher in life is experience.
-- LeBron James

#Teacher #Best Teacher #Life Is

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.
-- LeBron James

#Basketball #Nba #Special

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.
-- LeBron James

#Nba Championships #Games #Scary

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.
-- LeBron James

#Team #Feel Better #Nba Championships

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

#Home #Nba Championships #Waiting