Top 263 Quotes & Sayings by LeBron James - Page 4

I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.

It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

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

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

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

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.

Don't think for one min that I haven't been taking mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone!

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

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.'

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

I'm not about saving franchises.

The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

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

I spoil a lot of people with my play.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

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

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

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

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

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

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

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

I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

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

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.

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightaway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

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.

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.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.

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.

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.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

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

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

Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

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

The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.

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

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.

We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).

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.

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.

Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.