LeBron James Team Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.

That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

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 this city, but I don't get caught up in it. I just try to go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and my franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that.

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

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

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

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.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

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.

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

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.

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.

I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

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.

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.

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

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'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.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

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.

I was just fighting through it. I was trying to fight through a cold, but I didn't want to make any excuses. I didn't want to be in the position where I wasn't there for my team tonight.

We've been doing a great job of closing out games on the road lately. It's tough playing the same team twice (in a one-week span). We didn't want to put too much pressure on ourselves because of the guys they are missing. We tried come out and play like they had everyone.

The third quarter was a disaster. They put pressure on us and we couldn't make shots. If we want to be an elite team, we can't let teams come back like that.

It shows what our team is all about. We're getting better and improving. We're still missing one important part of our team. When (guard Larry Hughes) comes back, it's going to be even better.

(Being mentioned in the same breath with Johnson is) a great class to be in. I just wanted to do a great job of attacking and helping my team any way possible. I was able to do that.

We beat them with our full team before, and they beat us twice. It doesn't make any difference. If we face them in the first round of the playoffs, we'll be ready for them. The playoffs start next Saturday or Sunday. I'll be ready.

Opposing teams don't realize I'm a football player first. I can take those hits.

I want to get out there with my teammates and see how it goes. I'll play as many minutes as I can or as many minutes as coach (Mike Brown) will allow me.

It took us a while to get to know each other, but right now we're at the point where we can close our eyes and know where our teammates are at. That's an excellent thing to have.

They had a chance to put their foot on our neck and that's what they did. They're a well-coached team and they did a great job.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

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

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

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.

We didn't trust our teammates as much as we should have in the fourth quarter. If they are going to double-team me, I'm going to give up the ball. We're just not knocking down shots.

We can't keep beating teams like Phoenix, and Detroit, and San Antonio, and then lose to a sub-par .500 team. It's not going to help us.

It was hard for me to adjust to Larry being out there because it's been so long. But wow, what a break for our team to get him back as we're getting ready for the playoffs.

Coming off a back-to-back, with a big win last night against Indiana, it would have been easy for us to not bring intensity. Early on, our team didn't have intensity. I saw that and I had to pretty much take over matters. I've been able to take my team on my back.

What Larry brings to our team is awesome. He's going to keep getting better.

This was big for us. The guys stepped up. We couldn't go 0-3 against them. They might be a team we face in the playoffs. So we can't let them think they can come in here and beat us.

I've always been a pass-first type player. But my teammates come to me and tell me to be more aggressive, sometimes be more selfish. And it's kind of hard because that's not my game. But when my teammates ask me to do something like that, I got to take it and run with it.

If my team gets better and my points drop, I'll love it. If my team gets better, or if I have to sacrifice phases of my game, I will. Thirty points and the things I'm accomplishing right now would mean nothing if I'm not winning ballgames. Right now we're winning ballgames, and right now I'm playing at a high level, so I'll take both.

We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.

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.

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.

They've given us trouble, no doubt about it. This is the team that's given us the most trouble thus far.

It is something we need to work on. We need to approach games like we do at home, but that's very difficult for every team in this league.

We got stops and made shots when it counted. When you hold a team to 38 percent from the field you give yourself a pretty good chance of winning.

We're real confident right now. We can win in any kind of game, up-tempo games, grind it out games, on the road games especially, which we were able to capitalize on this year. It's showing how much our team has grown.

We did not want to get blown out against a team in the Eastern Conference.

We are still getting better. We are becoming a good team and it is good to see that...We need to approach games like we do at home, which is difficult, but once we get to that point we will be much better.

The way he's coached us the first week of training camp and now in the preseason has been great. He has a lot of pressure because he's a rookie head coach, but we don't look at him like that. He's been on championship teams his whole life and he's going to bring that same intensity to us.

We stopped playing our No. 1 point guard for no reason, and as a team we didn't know why. The chemistry has all been shifted. That bothered me. You got (McInnis) sitting on the bench and we're losing.

The opposing teams don't know I'm a football player first. Nothing compares to those football hits.

The opposing team doesn't realize that I'm a football player first. I'm going to take those hits.

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

Guys stepped up tonight. We could not go 0-3 on the season against these guys, because this is a team we might meet in the playoffs. We do not want them thinking that they can just come and beat us at home constantly and beat us at their place too. They are a good team. We are a good team, and we played well to get a win.

I just wanted to do a great job of going out there and attacking to help my team win any way possible. I was able to do that.