LeBron James Quotes About Basketball
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The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.
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That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, ’You're just a very low-maintenance guy’. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.
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They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.
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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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I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.
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Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart.
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I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.
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No place is better than Akron.
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It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.
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You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.
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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.
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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.
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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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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
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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.
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I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
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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.
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Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.
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If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.
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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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I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.
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My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.
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My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
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I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.
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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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With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
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I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.
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