LeBron James Quotes

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.

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

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

As loud as fans were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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!

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

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

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

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

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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.

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

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

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

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.

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

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.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

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.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.