LeBron James
I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.
You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
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.
Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.
Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
Cleveland fans are awesome.
No place is better than Akron.
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.
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.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.Collection: Inspirational
The best teacher in life is experience.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Decision
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?Collection: Morning
There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Basketball
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.Collection: Ohio
Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.Collection: Best Effort
A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.Collection: Dream
I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.Collection: Nba Championships
We have an opportunity to get better.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Inspirational
Maybe my pain was my motivation.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Basketball
I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.Collection: Hurt
I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.Collection: Basketball
I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Basketball
The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Basketball
I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.Collection: Basketball
They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Nba
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.Collection: Funny
I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.Collection: Basketball
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!Collection: Summer
They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.Collection: Nba Championships
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.Collection: Nba Championships
I spoil a lot of people with my play.Collection: Nba
I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.Collection: Basketball
Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.Collection: Nba Championships
That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.Collection: Jobs