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I'm Just Blessed That I Was Able To Have Guys Around Me That Had Some Of The Same Goals. The Man Above Gave Me A Gift And He Gave Me Friends And A Mentor That Can Help Me Reach My Goal And Reach My Potential. And We All Had The Same Goal, So It Wasn't Hard For Us To Get, You Know, Off Track Because We All Wanted The Same Thing.

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I'm Just Blessed That

LeBron James

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I'm Just Blessed That I Was Able To Have Guys Around Me That Had Some Of The Same Goals. The Man Above Gave Me A Gift And He Gave Me Friends And A Mentor That Can Help Me Reach My Goal And Reach My Potential. And We All Had The Same Goal, So It Wasn't Hard For Us To Get, You Know, Off Track Because We All Wanted The Same Thing.

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I Never Get Too High On My Stardom Or What I Can Do.

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If A Great Opportunity Opens Itself Up, I Would Love To Be Involved... Or Star In A Movie.

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

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

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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.

I Assure You, You Will Never Survive On Your Wits Alone.

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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.

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

Don't Be Afraid Of Failure. This Is The Way To Succeed.

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

I Will Have No Problem Coming To Practice On Time. The Locker Room Is Great, But We Have To Prove Ourselves On The Court.

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 Played Football For A Team Called The East Dragons On The East Side Of Town. We Only Had Six Regular Season Games. And Six Games I Played Tail Back And I Had 18 Touchdowns In Six Games. That's When I Knew I Had Some Athletic Ability.

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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 Didn't Think We'd Get To This Point That We're At Now, But I Was Ready To Lead If We Got To This Point.

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I Love Showcasing My Talents - Not Only To My Hometown Fans And My Own Team But To The World.

We Want To Win It All. The Only Reason We Play This Game Is To Win Championships.

I Always Believed That I’d Return To Cleveland And Finish My Career There.

Maybe The Ones Burning My Jersey Were Never Lebron Fans Anyway.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When I Was 5, Some Financial Things Happened, And I Moved Seven Times In A Year. We Moved From Apartment To Apartment, Sometimes Living With Friends. My Mom Would Always Say, 'don't Get Comfortable, Because We May Not Be Here Long.'

My Father Wasn't Around When I Was A Kid, And I Used To Always Say, 'why Me? Why Don't I Have A Father? Why Isn't He Around? Why Did He Leave My Mother?' But As I Got Older I Looked Deeper And Thought, 'i Don't Know What My Father Was Going Through, But If He Was Around All The Time, Would I Be Who I Am Today?'

I'm Just Blessed That I Was Able To Have Guys Around Me That Had Some Of The Same Goals. The Man Above Gave Me A Gift And He Gave Me Friends And A Mentor That Can Help Me Reach My Goal And Reach My Potential. And We All Had The Same Goal, So It Wasn't Hard For Us To Get, You Know, Off Track Because We All Wanted The Same Thing.

Before Anyone Ever Cared Where I Would Play Basketball, I Was A Kid From Northeast Ohio. It’s Where I Walked. It’s Where I Ran. It’s Where I Cried. It’s Where I Bled. It Holds A Special Place In My Heart.

When You Have That Respect From Your Teammates, It Makes It A Lot More Comfortable.

I'm Going To Use All My Tools, My God-given Ability, And Make The Best Life I Can With It.

In This Fall - This Is Very Tough - In This Fall I'm Going To Take My Talents To South Beach And Join The Miami Heat.

I'm Very Good At Noticing Talent. I Knew He Was Special Then And Obviously He Is Now.

For If Any Be A Hearer Of The Word, And Not A Doer, He Is Like A Man Beholding His Natural Face In A Glass: For He Beholdeth Himself, And Goeth His Way, And Straightaway Forgetteth What Manner Of Man He Was.

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.

Tonight We Had Our Chances But We Ran Out Of Talent.

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A Lebron James Team Is Never Desperate.

I Just Bring The Determination To Win.

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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I've Put Our Guys In Position. I Gave Them The Blueprint. I Think They're Ready.

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.

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 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.

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

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

The Best Teacher In Life Is Experience.

In Fourth Grade, I Missed 82 Days Of School. Out Of 160.

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.

There's No Reason To Play In The Nba If You Don't Believe You Can Win It All.

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.

Akron, Ohio, Is My Home. It Will Always Be Remembered. Akron, Ohio, Is My Life.

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

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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And Winning Is A Huge Thing For Me.

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.

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.

You Know, I'm Just 6'9" And 260. And Just So Happen To Be Very Good At Playing The Game Of Basketball.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Steph Is Scary. I've Never Seen Anyone Who Can Shoot The Ball Off The Dribble Like Him. He Got It Going In 4th. Every Game Is Different.

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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.

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

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.

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

If I Could Have Gave More, I Would Have Done It. I Gave Everything I Had

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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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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 Learn From Winning, Because It's Much Easier To Point Out Things When You Lose. But I Think The Alternate Competitors Can Point Out A Lot Of Things When You Win.

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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