Top 200 LeBron James Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Maybe my pain was my motivation.”

— LeBron James

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2. “Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

— LeBron James

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3. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.”

— LeBron James

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4. “The best teacher in life is experience.”

— LeBron James

5. “In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

— LeBron James

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6. “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.”

— LeBron James

7. “I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”

— LeBron James

8. “You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”

— LeBron James

9. “There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”

— LeBron James

10. “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.”

— LeBron James

11. “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.”

— LeBron James

12. “I’m just a little kid from Akron.”

— LeBron James

13. “Some times your best effort just isn’t good enough.”

— LeBron James

14. “I’m ready to accept the challenge. I’m coming home.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

16. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

18. “I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.”

— LeBron James

19. “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.”

— LeBron James

20. “I feel confident because I’m the best player in the world. It’s that simple.”

— LeBron James

21. “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.”

— LeBron James

22. “Nothing is given. Everything is earned.”

— LeBron James

23. “I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries.”

— LeBron James

24. “We have an opportunity to get better.”

— LeBron James

25. “I’m not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

29. “My dream has become a reality now, and it’s the best feeling I’ve ever had.”

— LeBron James

30. “You can’t let nobody run your train.”

— LeBron James

31. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

35. “I love seeing my teammates succeed. That’s what I get more excited about than anything.”

— LeBron James

36. “Know that I’m better solo. I invented solo.”

— LeBron James

37. “I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.”

— LeBron James

38. “I don’t read books much.”

— LeBron James

39. “Messi is the best player in the world. If he’s not already, he’ll be the best footballer of all time.”

— LeBron James

40. “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.”

— LeBron James

41. “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!”

— LeBron James

42. “You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.”

— LeBron James

43. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

45. “That’s one of my biggest obstacles. I’m afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.”

— LeBron James

46. “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.”

— LeBron James

47. “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.”

— LeBron James

48. “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.”

— LeBron James

49. “I went through a lot of battles in high school.”

— LeBron James

50. “I’ve got extra motivation that I won’t talk about right now.”

— LeBron James