LeBron James quotes:

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.

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 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.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

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.

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.

When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

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

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

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.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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.

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

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.

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.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

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

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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 went through a lot of battles in high school.

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

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

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.

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.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

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

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

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.'

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

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.

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

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.

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.

We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.

It just wasn't our time.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

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

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

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.

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.

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

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.

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.

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.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

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

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

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

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

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.

We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

As loud as they 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. We need you guys to get those voices right. But they're gonna be unbelievable Thursday night as well. Those guys, everyone, they're amazing.

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.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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

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.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

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.

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.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

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.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

And winning is a huge thing for me.

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 don't read books much.

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

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

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

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

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.

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.

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

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.