Top 200 LeBron James Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— LeBron James

102. “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.”

— LeBron James

103. “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.”

— LeBron James

104. “I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

106. “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.”

— LeBron James

107. “We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We’ll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that’s just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series.”

— LeBron James

108. “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.”

— LeBron James

109. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

111. “I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I’m gonna give back.”

— LeBron James

112. “I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That’s generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.”

— LeBron James

113. “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.”

— LeBron James

114. “It’s a humbling experience for me to be in this position.”

— LeBron James

115. “My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.”

— LeBron James

116. “A LeBron James team is never desperate.”

— LeBron James

117. “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.”

— LeBron James

118. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

120. “That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.”

— LeBron James

121. “I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area – in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.”

— LeBron James

122. “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.”

— LeBron James

123. “The same way you slow me down. You can’t.”

— LeBron James

124. “I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one, and I take that very seriously.”

— LeBron James

125. “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.”

— LeBron James

126. “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.”

— LeBron James

127. “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.”

— LeBron James

128. “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.”

— LeBron James

129. “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.”

— LeBron James

130. “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.”

— LeBron James

131. “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.”

— LeBron James

132. “We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.”

— LeBron James

133. “But put my body through a lot, you know, but it’s the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn’t win a championship, but I’ve done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.”

— LeBron James

134. “It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I’ve been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I’ve been the MVP of my team for a long time – just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.”

— LeBron James

135. “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.”

— LeBron James

136. “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.”

— LeBron James

137. “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.”

— LeBron James

138. “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.”

— LeBron James

139. “I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.”

— LeBron James

140. “Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.”

— LeBron James

141. “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.”

— LeBron James

142. “Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.”

— LeBron James

143. “These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

145. “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.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

147. “To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, ‘Give me the ball.’ We’re either going to go to overtime or I’m going to win it for us. It was that simple.”

— LeBron James

148. “I can’t worry about what other people say.”

— LeBron James

149. “As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.”

— LeBron James

150. “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.”

— LeBron James