Lebron james quotes

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

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.

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

I'm confident with my ability.

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

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?'

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

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

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.

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

I don't read books much.

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

We have an opportunity to get better.

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

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.

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

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

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

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.

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

I just bring the determination to win.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

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

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

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

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

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

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.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

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

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

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

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

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

I can't worry about what other people say.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

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

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.

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 do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries.

I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

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

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

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

You can't let nobody run your train.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.

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

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

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

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

The best teacher in life is experience.

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

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.

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?

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

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

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'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 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.

But put my body through a lot, you know, but it's the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn't win a championship, but I've done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

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

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

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

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

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.

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.

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

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

In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

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 resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

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

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

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.

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

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

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