Top 200 LeBron James Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— LeBron James

52. “I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.”

— LeBron James

53. “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.”

— LeBron James

54. “I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.”

— LeBron James

55. “But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.”

— LeBron James

56. “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?”

— LeBron James

57. “The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.”

— LeBron James

58. “I’m a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.”

— LeBron James

59. “We aren’t comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.”

— LeBron James

60. “I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.”

— LeBron James

61. “I’m very, very confident in my ability to see the game – even before it’s played.”

— LeBron James

62. “There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.”

— LeBron James

63. “Yoga isn’t just about the body, it’s also about the mind and it’s a technique that has really helped me.”

— LeBron James

64. “I’m like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.”

— LeBron James

65. “The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.”

— LeBron James

66. “If I could clone myself, we’d be all right. But I can’t.”

— LeBron James

67. “I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it’s helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don’t know. I’m not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me.”

— LeBron James

68. “I’m taking my talents to South Beach.”

— LeBron James

69. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

71. “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.”

— LeBron James

72. “It just wasn’t our time.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

74. “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.”

— LeBron James

75. “I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

77. “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.”

— LeBron James

78. “The Greater Man upstairs know when it’s my time. Right now isn’t the time.”

— LeBron James

79. “My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t realize that four years ago. I do now.”

— LeBron James

80. “But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.”

— LeBron James

81. “I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.”

— LeBron James

82. “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.”

— LeBron James

83. “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.”

— LeBron James

84. “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?”

— LeBron James

85. “Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won’t let me be selfish.”

— LeBron James

86. “I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

88. “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.”

— LeBron James

89. “I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.”

— LeBron James

90. “I’m confident with my ability.”

— LeBron James

91. “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.’”

— LeBron James

92. “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.”

— LeBron James

93. “There’s no reason to play in the NBA if you don’t believe you can win it all.”

— LeBron James

94. “With that locker room I could sleep there after games.”

— LeBron James

95. “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.”

— LeBron James

96. “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.’”

— LeBron James

97. “We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.”

— LeBron James

98. “Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn’t do enough.”

— LeBron James

99. “I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.”

— LeBron James

100. “It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.”

— LeBron James