LeBron James Quotes for Success and Life

LeBron James is arguably the best active NBA player leading the Miami Heat to multiple NBA Championships and as of recent an NBA Championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Not only is his work ethic an example on the basketball ball court but off the court as well. We’ve compiled all of the best LeBron James quotes for your reading pleasure. Our hope is that in some way, shape or form one of these LeBron James quotes will help to take your game to a new level. Enjoy!

LeBron James Quotes

Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It’s not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It’s just how I am. – LeBron James

Dream as if you’ll live forever,

Live as if you’ll die today!

– LeBron James

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you’re automatically a role model … I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. – LeBron James

I like criticism. It makes you strong. – LeBron James

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. – LeBron James

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball. – LeBron James

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

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? – LeBron James

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it. – LeBron James

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me. – LeBron James

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.

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? – LeBron James

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. – LeBron James

I hear that word pressure all the time. There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself. – LeBron James

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. – LeBron James

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

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know? – LeBron James

Ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner. – LeBron James

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 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. – LeBron James

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. – LeBron James

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