Top 263 Quotes & Sayings by LeBron James - Page 3

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

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

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

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'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 team-mates.

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

I'm a guy who is just trying to be successful in whatever I do, and I give everything to my teammates, give everything to the coaching staff. When you fall short, it hurts and it eats at you, and it hurts me to know that I wish I could have done better and done more and just put a little bit more effort or whatever the case may be to help us get over the hump. But it just wasn't our time.

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

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

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

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

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.

To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

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

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

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.

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

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.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

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.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

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

I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

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.

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.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

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.

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.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

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

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

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.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

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.

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.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.

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.

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 the city... but I don't get caught up into it. I just go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and this franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that.

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

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

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.

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?

I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

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.

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

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

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.

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.