LeBron James Quotes (131 Quotes)

We know we can't stop him. We want to try and contain him and make other guys on their team beat us. Their team stepped up.

It was a perfect miss. That sounds crazy, but I missed it perfectly, and I followed it and got fouled, and we were in a position to go to OT, but I lost the game for us. I've never practiced that but I know how to hit the back of the rim and make it pop out.

I went at four seconds, got to my comfort zone and made a tough shot. They were not going to get an opportunity to go down and make a shot on us.

All the hard work paid off. We're going to have a little fun tonight.

I was a Bulls fan in seventh grade. I loved Michael Jordan and the black and red.

We're going to be hurt by it he's one of our main guys. Someone else is going to have to pick it up.

It puts a smile on my face to be compared to a legend. Year by year, as you play basketball, you've got to know the history of the game.

Eight years is a long time. To experience that in his first year and then wait another eight years to get back, it's tough for him. You have to feel excited for him. It's awesome.

I don't want to make an excuse. But the core guys that we had with us at the beginning of the year are not with us right now. We have to fight through it and get better and just keep working hard.

It was difficult. It was a feeling I never felt before. I thought it was serious at first.

I was able to attack at times, draw the defense in and kick it out -- sometimes we made the shots, sometimes we didn't. We try to do the exact same things they try to do, only they do it about five times better right now.

To make our team better, I felt I had to become a better defensive player. It's very hard. You have to put your mind to it and really want to do it. I give a lot of credit to our coaching staff.

We shot terrible tonight. It's not like we didn't have good shots. We had great looks ... You have to give it to them. They made us look bad.

We want to be an elite team and we have to learn how. The feeling I had last year at this time is totally different. It is a whole different environment this year. He (Brown) knows what I want from the team and I know what he wants.

I just wanted to try and be aggressive. I wanted to try and put Boston away. If you let them hang around, they have some dangerous weapons.

I was just showcasing my talent today and we got another win.

It's playoff time and we're finding ways to win. It's great to see.

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.

We made some good stops and we contested their shots. I think last time we played them they shot around 60 percent. W were able to contest those shots and we were able to attack and get a lead and we didn't let go.

The atmosphere was unbelievable. This must be what playoff basketball is all about.

They took advantage of us and things didn't go right for us. We won on their court, we won on our court so now it is going to come down to the wire.

If we're up by 30, I feel a little more comfortable sitting. If we're ahead only 10 or 12, I get nervous.

We were down three with eight seconds left and I come down the court and I was doubled. Flip (Murray) was wide open and I got him the ball.

It was exciting. We did a great job. Yao (Ming) is very talented and it's tough to beat this team. To get a win on their court is even better.

Individual accolades come when your team is successful. It showed (Sunday).

We had some slow progress. It takes a few years to put up a building, even in Vegas.

It was everything I expected. For us to play the way we played today was magnificent.

I said when I was drafted (in 2003) that I would try to light this city up like Vegas. I said that from Day 1.

It's not too serious. I don't know who I stepped on but I did sprain it. I'll see how I feel in the morning and see if I can go tomorrow. But if I'm not 100 percent, I won't go.

I felt pretty good, so I'm going to give it a little run. I don't plan on playing my usual 42 minutes a night, of course. (But) I don't want to sit out the rest of the games.

Me and Nike came up with the concept. We just ran with it, man. It was awesome. It took me about a week to do it. I was putting on different costumes. We hit everyone - the older generation, the younger generation, the Me generation.