Top 200 LeBron James Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— LeBron James

104. “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

105. “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

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

— LeBron James

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

— 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. “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

114. “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

115. “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

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

— LeBron James

119. “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

120. “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

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

— LeBron James

122. “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

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

— LeBron James

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— LeBron James

128. “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

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. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

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

— LeBron James

135. “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

136. “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

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

140. “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

141. “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

142. “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

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

— LeBron James

144. “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

145. “I don’t let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

147. “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.”

— LeBron James

148. “I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it’s not.”

— LeBron James

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

— LeBron James

150. “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