LeBron James citations

“Crazy. Karma is a bitch. Gets you every time. It's not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!”

“This fall, and this was a very tough decision for me, but this fall I will be taking my talents to South Beach and play with the Miami Heat.”

“I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.”

“Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.”

“CLEVELAND! This is for you!”

“A LeBron James team is never desperate.”

“All the people that were rooting for me to fail… at the end of the day, tomorrow they have to wake up and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. … They got the same personal problems they had today. And I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things I want to do.”

“No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough.”

“Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven.”

“I'm only one guy. I took Hedo [Türkoğlu] in the first game and Rashard [Lewis] hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.”

“I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.”

“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.”

“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”

“Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.”

“The best teacher in life is experience.”

“Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

“It’s hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. … I’m a winner. It’s not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you’re not going to congratulate them. That doesn’t make sense to me. I’m a competitor. That’s what I do. It doesn’t make sense for me to go over and shake somebody’s hand.”

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

“I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.”

“Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”

“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.”

“I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”

“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? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”

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

“Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.”

“I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.”

“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.”

“Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back.”

“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.”