Top 100 LeBron James Quotes
#1. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
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#11. We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.
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#12. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
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#13. I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
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#17. 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.
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#19. We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.
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#23. Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.
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#24. 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.
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#25. You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
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#30. 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.
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#31. As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
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#32. That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,
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#33. 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.
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#34. I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.
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#36. I learn from winning, because it's much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win.
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#37. I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
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#38. Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.
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#39. I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.
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#40. 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.
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#41. That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.
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#42. 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,
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#43. 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.
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#45. We lost one, 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.
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#46. There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.
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#47. With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
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#48. I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
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#49. When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
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#50. I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.
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#53. Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
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#55. 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 teammates.
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#56. Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.
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#57. 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.
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#58. You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.
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#59. Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#63. I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
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#64. It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.
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#65. 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.
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#66. But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
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#67. 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.
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#68. There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league. There is no room for him.
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#69. 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.
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#71. 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.'
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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!
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#75. 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
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#76. We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.
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#77. I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.
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#78. Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#82. I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
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#83. I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.
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#84. A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.
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#85. I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.
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#86. We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.
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#87. I always believed that I'd return to Cleveland and finish my career there.
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#88. I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
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#89. Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.
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#90. Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.
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#91. 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.
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#92. I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.
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#93. I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.
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#94. We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.
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#95. Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.
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#96. 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.
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#98. We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.
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