C. L. R. James Quotes

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

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.

A kid with a dream from Akron Ohio. Now chopping it up with the Prez. Life is Good

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) 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.

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

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.

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.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

I don't read books much.

I like being around people.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league - there is no room for him.

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

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

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

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

No place is better than Akron.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

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

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.

I spoil a lot of people with my play.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

I'm not about saving franchises.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.

Don't think for one min that I haven't been taking mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone!

I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

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