LeBron James Quotes (131 Quotes)

I felt a little winded. I ain't gonna lie. I wasn't 100 percent. If I looked sharp, wait until I get 100 percent.

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

You play defense for 22 seconds, 23 seconds and give up an offensive rebound, it's kind of a letdown. We've got to clean that up.

The third quarter was a disaster. They put pressure on us and we couldn't make shots. If we want to be an elite team, we can't let teams come back like that.

We'll feel good about ourselves today and get back to work tomorrow. Tuesday's game will be a whole different ball game. We worked all year for home-court advantage. We can't come into Tuesday and lose it.

They've given us trouble, no doubt about it. This is the team that's given us the most trouble thus far.

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.

He's probably the quickest guy in our league, him and Allen Iverson. He put pressure on our defense the whole night.

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.

I don't think so. I got the first two years out of the way, and that's when you usually do it. I don't want to be defined as being in the slam dunk contest, it's just not me.

I was about time for me to wake up and for me to be more aggressive. Once I start feeling like that, I feel unstoppable.

I feel good about the win and I know he's happy about that, too. As long as we win, it doesn't matter to me and it doesn't matter to him (who scores), but it was good to see him make some big buckets out there.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

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.

He loves defense. We wanted to make sure we didn't give them easy opportunities to make shots.

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

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.

This is a tough time for us.

I was kind of air-headed. I was put into a situation where I didn't have a clear mind about it. That's my fault also, not knowing what I was getting myself into.

I just didn't make the shots I wanted to in the second half.

If I don't feel 100 percent tomorrow, I won't go.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

The way he's coached us the first week of training camp and now in the preseason has been great. He has a lot of pressure because he's a rookie head coach, but we don't look at him like that. He's been on championship teams his whole life and he's going to bring that same intensity to us.

It's a great honor, but it's over and done.

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

We stopped playing our No. 1 point guard for no reason, and as a team we didn't know why. The chemistry has all been shifted. That bothered me. You got (McInnis) sitting on the bench and we're losing.

The atmosphere and the fans were unbelievable. With the towels waving and the excitement, it was easy to keep my energy high, even though I've been battling a cold. Yeah, the crowd was excellent.

It was tough to watch. Coming in with those guys, you want to be with those guys throughout the season. But I won't be watching this time. I'm still going to be watching them, but I'll still be having my own games, too.

I wanted to be assertive, hit the open shots and drive to the basket, which I'm always capable of doing. The MVP was never in my mind.

I just wanted to be aggressive. On the road, you don't want to settle for jump shots. I was going to the hole and getting to everyone's body. I was trying to finish over them and create contact.

We've spoken all year. We all just talk about just trying to lead our team. We're not saying all the way to the finals, but when I say lead our team, that's just going out and doing the right thing, on the court and off the court.

I'll start out on Lamar. There are times I will have Kobe. I'm going to take on the challenge. We'll try to get out and run and control the tempo.

We needed some time off. We'd been on the road for a week. It was a good practice, guys had their legs coming off the day off and we came in with the focus to get ready and get some wins.

The third quarter was a disaster. We weren't able to counter their attack. They made big shots and we weren't able to make any shots. We knew they would heat up but we didn't counter it.

That's tradition, that's the only place we know we're going to play very well. I'm excited for them. I'm happy they got there. That shows it doesn't stop just because I left.

Yeah both of them. I mean I saw them live too, we were sitting watching the game , we were sitting in the training room, unbelievable. You know it shows us how far the women's game has come.

This is the second or third time he's done that here.

Drew goes with the flow. When he gets the ball, he produces. We don't run many plays for him. He had a hell of a game for us. We'll need him to do it again Friday.

I don't know where it came from. I don't remember getting elbowed in the chest. I woke up yesterday morning and it was hurting. It's something I've never felt before.

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.

We beat them with our full team before, and they beat us twice. It doesn't make any difference. If we face them in the first round of the playoffs, we'll be ready for them. The playoffs start next Saturday or Sunday. I'll be ready.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

We knew it was going to be a grind-it-out game. It's always been every time that we have played Milwaukee.

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.

It was a very big play for us.

We did a great job on moving our offense and moving all around the court tonight.

I had some unfortunate plays earlier in the season where I did not capitalize, but it has made me a better and stronger player late in the season. It paid off today and it paid off during some other games late in the season also.

We were very excited to have 'Z' come in and play well. We missed him the other night. Tonight we executed and made the big shots.

No decision yet. I hope to make one in the next couple days. It's looking real positive right now I might be playing on the team.