LeBron James
It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.Collection: Nba Championships
I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Sleep
I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Men
I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.Collection: Basketball
We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Moving
I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Vision
I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.Collection: Nba Championships
A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.Collection: Team
I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Drinking
We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.Collection: Nba Championships
The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.Collection: Motivation
I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.Collection: Basketball
Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.Collection: Home
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.Collection: Games
The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.Collection: Years
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.'Collection: Basketball
There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league - there is no room for him.Collection: League
We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Sorry
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?Collection: Inspiration
I'm not about saving franchises.Collection: Saving
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.Collection: Frustrated
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.Collection: Athlete
We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.Collection: Funny
A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Jobs
There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Basketball
I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Senior
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.Collection: Winning
I'm just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn't hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.Collection: Blessed
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.Collection: Memories
I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.Collection: Nba
Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.Collection: Basketball
The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.Collection: Sports
Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.Collection: World
I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.Collection: Basketball