LeBron James Quotes

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

And winning is a huge thing for me.

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

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

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

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.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

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

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

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.

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.

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.

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

We have an opportunity to get better.

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.

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.

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

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

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.

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

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.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

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 confident with my ability.

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

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.

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

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.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.