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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.

-LeBron James

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LeBron James

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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.

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I Do Pilates And Yoga To Stay In Front Of The Curve. I Feel Like It's Helping Me. Does It Work For Everybody? I Don't Know. I'm Not A Guru On How To Be In The Best Condition. Let Me Sit Here And Tell You That. But It Works For Me.

They Jumped On Us. They Were The Aggressor. They Had Us On Our Heels From The Beginning.

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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.

Some Times Your Best Effort Just Isn't Good Enough.

I Treated It Like Every Day Was My Last Day With A Basketball.

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.

I've Always Been A Leader. I've Always Kind Of Been The Tallest Person On The Team When I Was Younger But Always Kind Of The Smartest. I Was Ahead Of My Time. I Wasn't Always The Oldest, I Kind Of Was The Youngest On The Team, But, I Kind Of Knew What To Do At Times.

But Ever Since I Was A Kid, I Was Always The Winner.

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When You Get To Know Some Of The History Of The Game, Oscar Robertson Is One Of The Names That Pops Up First.

I Like Criticism. It Makes You Strong.

I Never Rushed The Fact That I Wanted To Be In The Nba Or Rushed The Fact, You Know, They Asked Me About The Nba. I Always (unintelligible) Back To The Fact That I Just Love Playing With My Teammates.

But I Mean, Even My Family Gets Spoiled At Times Watching Me Doing Things That I Do, On And Off The Court.

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.

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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.

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.

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I Hear My Friends And My Mom Tell Me I'm Special, But Honestly, I Still Don't Get It.

We Ran Out Of Talent Tonight. The Guys Played As Hard As They Could, As Long As We Could.

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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.

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.

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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.

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We Lost One (finals), 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).

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As A Parent You Protect Your Kids As Much As Possible.

I Hope I Can Help Guys Coming Out Of High School, If They Need Advice. I Know The Ins And Outs Of Everything.

You Have To Do What's Best For You And What's Going To Make You Happy At The End Of The Day, Because No One Can Live With The Consequences Or Anything That Comes With Your Decision Besides You.

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It's A Lot Of Talent Sitting In Suits.

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In The Next 15 Or 20 Years, I Hope I'll Be The Richest Man In The World. That's One Of My Goals. I Want To Be A Billionaire. I Want To Get To A Position Where Generation On Generation Don't Have To Worry About Nothing. I Don't Want Family Members From My Kids To My Son's Kids To Never Have To Worry. And I Can't Do That Now Just Playing Basketball.

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.

That's One Of My Biggest Obstacles. I'm Afraid Of Failure. I Want To Succeed So Bad That I Become Afraid Of Failing.

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.

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.

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Just Because We Are Back Home, Don't Get Comfortable. Have That Same Uptight Feeling Like It's Just Us Against Everyone.

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That's Crazy, Because I Had No Idea What The Word 'contraction' Meant Before I Saw It On The Internet.

I Expect Us To Win. I Expect Us To Get Better Every Day.

I Don't Really Get Involved In It, The Whole Thing. I Understand How Important This City Is And What I Mean To This City And What Our Team Means To The City... But I Don't Get Caught Up Into It. I Just Go Out And Play My Game. I Try To Lead The Best Way I Can, And If I Can Put My Team And This Franchise In A Position To Win The Title, I'm Grateful For That.

You Know, Softball Is The Other Sport I Do Besides Basketball.

Messi Is The Best Player In The World. If He's Not Already, He'll Be The Best Footballer Of All Time.

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A Friend Told Me 'i Guess You Gotta Go Through A Lot Of Nightmares, Before You Finally, You Know, Accomplish Your Dreams.

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The Letter From Dan Gilbert, The Booing Of The Cleveland Fans, The Jerseys Being Burned -- Seeing All That Was Hard For Them. My Emotions Were More Mixed. It Was Easy To Say, 'ok, I Don't Want To Deal With These People Ever Again.' But Then You Think About The Other Side. What If I Were A Kid Who Looked Up To An Athlete, And That Athlete Made Me Want To Do Better In My Own Life, And Then He Left? How Would I React? I've Met With Dan, Face-to-face, Man-to-man. We've Talked It Out. Everybody Makes Mistakes. I've Made Mistakes As Well. Who Am I To Hold A Grudge?

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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.

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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.

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A Lot Of People Were Saying That I Was A Selfish Person And A Selfish Player. You Know, It Got To Me.

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.

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.

I'm Very, Very Confident In My Ability To See The Game - Even Before It's Played.

I Like Being Around People.

My Relationship With Northeast Ohio Is Bigger Than Basketball. I Didn't Realize That Four Years Ago. I Do Now.

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As A Parent, If You Have Multiple Kids, You Can't Teach Them All The Same Thing Because They All Have Different Personalities. They're Their Own Person.

As A Man, If You Got A Problem With Somebody, You Sit Down Face To Face And You Talk To Them Eye To Eye. And You Hash It Out And Move On.

I Was Blessed With A God-given Talent And My Mother Raised Me The Right Way.

A Team Like Golden State, When They Get Into A Rhythm They Make Shots.

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Every Practice, Every Film Session, Every Game Will Help Our Chemistry.

I Always Say, Decisions I Make, I Live With Them. There's Always Ways You Can Correct Them Or Ways You Can Do Them Better. At The End Of The Day, I Live With Them.

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We Were Playing Every Game To Win, We Just Happened To Win 27 In A Row. Our Motto Was To Try And Go Out And Win Every Game, But There's Nothing Really To Talk About.

I Laugh And Joke, But I Don't Get Distracted Very Easily.

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.

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.

I've Always Been An Unselfish Guy, And That's The Only Way I Know How To Play On The Court And I Try To Play To The Maximum Of My Ability - Not Only For Myself But For My Team-mates.

We Have To Continue At A High Level And Make Them Take Tough Shots.

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Your Teammates Give You The Confidence. They Give Me The Confidence All Year, All Postseason.

A Kid With A Dream From Akron Ohio. Now Chopping It Up With The Prez. Life Is Good

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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.

I Think, Team First. It Allows Me To Succeed, It Allows My Team To Succeed.

When I Miss You, Sometimes I Listen To Music Or Look At Pictures Of You, Not To Remind Me Of You But To Make Me Feel As If I'm With You. It Makes Me Forget The Distance And Capture You.

Missing Someone

We Aren't Comfortable. We Are Not Satisfied. We Have To Stay Even-keeled.

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I've Always Been Skeptical Of People Who Say They Lose Themselves In A Part. Someone Once Came Up To Spencer Tracy And Asked, "aren't You Tired Of Always Playing Tracy?" Tracy Replied, "what Am I Supposed To Do, Play Bogart?" You Have To Develop A Style That Suits You And Pursue It, Not Just Develop A Bag Of Tricks.

There's That Moment Every Morning When You Look In The Mirror: Are You Committed, Or Are You Not?

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.

Be Doers Of The Word And Not Hearers Only, Deluding Yourselves.

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I Told Myself If I Ever Made It To The Level I Want To Be At, I'm Gonna Give Back.

I Am Just Happy To Be Part Of The Nike Family.

To All The Positions, I Just Bring The Determination To Win. Me Being An Unselfish Player, I Think That Can Carry On To My Teammates. When You Have One Of The Best Players On The Court Being Unselfish, I Think That Transfers To The Other Players.

As Loud As Fans Were , They Need To Go Home Now And Start Soaking Up A Lot Of Tea, Drinking A Lot Of Tea For The Next 36 Hours, Whatever The Case May Be, 'cause They Need To Be Just As Loud Thursday Night.

Sometimes In The Past When I Played Something Might Make Me Lose Focus, Or I Would Go Home After A Game Where I Thought I Could Have Played Better And I Would Let It Hang Over My Head For A Long Time When It Shouldn't.

The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me Was Losing Last Year In The Finals. I Had To Change.

Losing A Basketball Game Hurts But When You See What You've Been Through, You Look On It And Say Well If This Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen To Me, Then I'm Okay.

The Modern Athlete Is An Individual Corporation. I'm Not Quite Sure It's Very Good For Sport, Or Good For Team Work, Or Those Different Things That Sport Says It's About. This Is About Business.

No Place Is Better Than Akron.

I'm Feeling Better After The Game Than I Did When I Came Off The Floor With Cramps. ... I Was Going To Try To Give It A Go, And 'spo Said 'no.' You Know, After I Came Out Of The Game, They Kind Of Took Off. And It Was Frustrating Sitting Out And Not Being Able To Help The Team.

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I Was A Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan Fan Growing Up.

The Man Above Has Given Me Some Unbelievable Abilities To Play The Game Of Basketball. I Just Try To Take Advantage Of It Every Night. I Got The Trust Of My Teammates And My Coaching Staff To Go In There And Let It Go.

Hollywood Dishes Out Too Much Praise For Small Things I Won't Let It Get Me, But Too Much Praise Can Turn A Fellow's Head If He Doesn't Watch His Step.

I Need Music. It's Like My Heartbeat, So To Speak. It Keeps Me Going No Matter What's Going On - Bad Games, Press, Whatever!

Am I Responsible Or Are You', A Senior Official Asked His Pilot, Dubiously Beginning A Flight To Baghdad, 'for Seeing That This Machine Is Not Overloaded?' 'that Will Have To Be Decided At The Inquest.

If I Didn't Believe In This Team And This Organization And The Direction That We're Headed, I Wouldn't Have Signed The Extension.

I Have A Responsibility To Lead, In More Ways Than One, And I Take That Very Seriously.

Volleyball, I Could Be Pretty Good. After A Few Practices I Could Be That Striker, Or Whatever They Call It.

I Enjoy The Competition And Whatever It Takes Throughout The Competition, I Will Do It.

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I'm Confident With My Ability.

I Love Seeing My Teammates Succeed. That's What I Get More Excited About Than Anything

I Went Through A Lot Of Battles In High School.

I'm A Guy Who Is Just Trying To Be Successful In Whatever I Do, And I Give Everything To My Teammates, Give Everything To The Coaching Staff. When You Fall Short, It Hurts And It Eats At You, And It Hurts Me To Know That I Wish I Could Have Done Better And Done More And Just Put A Little Bit More Effort Or Whatever The Case May Be To Help Us Get Over The Hump. But It Just Wasn't Our Time.

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In Northeast Ohio, Nothing Is Given. Everything Is Earned. You Work For What You Have.

It's Humbling To Know That You Have Fans All Over America And All Over The World And They Want You To Play On Their Respective Basketball Team. It's Very Humbling That They Respect The Way I Play The Game Of Basketball. I Can't Discredit That. I Can't Say I Don't Enjoy It Because You Put In A Lot Of Hard Work To Have Fans. And For Me To Be A Role Model And For Me To Have Fans All Over Is Great. It's Very Humbling.

He Reminds Me Of Michael Jordan. "you Look And They Have Similar Games Where They Want To Lead Their Team To Victory, No Matter If They Have To Shoot The Ball Every Time Or If They Have To Rebound Or Pass, They're Going To Find A Way To Win." I've Always Said That Kobe Bryant Is The Best Scorer In Our Game Today And He's Definitely Proving Himself.

You Can't Be Afraid To Fail. It's The Only Way You Succeed - You're Not Gonna Succeed All The Time, And I Know That.

A Team Can't Work When A Guy Puts Himself In Front Of A Team. I Have Yet To Be On A Team Like That.

Sometimes The Coaches Tell Me To Be Selfish, But My Game Won't Let Me Be Selfish.

James Also Revealed He And His Teammates Smoked Marijuana One Night After Getting Access To A Hotel Room In Akron.

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.

Why Should I Care? I Have All The Money In The World.

As A Kid, We Would Drive Up And Down 77 North - That's Our Highway - There Would Be Office Buildings On The Side Of The Highway And I'd Be Like, That's What My House Is Going To Look Like When I Get Older. I'm Going To Start Making My House Look Like This.

If You Put Everything Together As Far As My Mind, My Body, My Game. If You Put Everything In One Bottle, This Is Probably The Best I've Been.

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.

I'm Going To Take My Talents To South Beach.

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.

They Continue To Criticize Me For My Outside Shooting, But I Continue To Make Outside Shots.

Basketball Is My Passion, I Love It. But My Family And Friends Mean Everything To Me. That's What's Important. I Need My Phone So I Can Keep In Contact With Them At All Times.

We Defended. We Made Them Keep Tough Shots, And We Executed Offensively.

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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.

Being The Only Man In The Household With My Mom Definitely Helped Me Grow Up Fast.

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.

I Feel Confident Because I'm The Best Player In The World. It's That Simple.

I'm Going To Be One Of The Top Four That's Ever Played This Game, For Sure. And If They Don't Want Me To Have One Of Those Top Four Spots, They'd Better Find Another Spot On That Mountain. Somebody's Gotta Get Bumped, But That's Not For Me To Decide. That's For The Architects.

Crazy. Karma Is A B****. Gets You Every Time. Its Not Good To Wish Bad On Anybody. God Sees Everything!

I'm Ready To Accept The Challenge. I'm Coming Home.

I Might Play In Shorts, But I Wear The Pants.

I Do Have Motivation. A Lot Of Motivation.

The Greater Man Upstairs Know When It's My Time. Right Now Isn't The Time.

I'm Under A Super Microscope. I've Got My Friends To Keep Me Cool. As Long As You've Got Friends, You've Got Nothing To Worry About.

I Don't Want To Be Kobe, I Want To Be Lebron.

It's A Humbling Experience For Me To Be In This Position.

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I Hate Letting My Teammates Down. I Know I'm Not Going To Make Every Shot. Sometimes I Try To Make The Right Play, And If It Results In A Loss, I Feel Awful. I Don't Feel Awful Because I Have To Answer Questions About It. I Feel Awful In That Locker Room Because I Could Have Done Something More To Help My Teammates Win.

If They Are The League Ain't Doing A Good Job Of It.

My Mom And I Have Always Been There For Each Other. We Had Some Tough Times, But She Was Always There For Me.

I Love The Success Of My Teammates More Than My Individual Achievements. I've Just Always Cared More About That Since I Started Playing.

Individual Achievement

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.

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