LeBron James Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.

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

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

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.

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

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

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

No place is better than Akron.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I can't worry about what other people say.

My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.

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

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.'

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

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.

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

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

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

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 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.