Quotes about basketball
basketball team hard-work
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. LeBron James
basketball shooting shots
They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.
basketball
No place is better than Akron.
basketball championship ready
I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.
basketball determination winning
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.
basketball team guy
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.
basketball stars team
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.
basketball mom mother
That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, ’You're just a very low-maintenance guy’. 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.
basketball teammate succeed
I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything
basketball sports hands
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- I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.
basketball heart perfect
I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.
basketball team games
You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
basketball worry long
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.
basketball pain motivation
Maybe my pain was my motivation.
basketball heart kids
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.
basketball laughing distracted
I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.
basketball winning huge
And winning is a huge thing for me.
basketball games very-good
You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
basketball team people
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.
basketball softball sports
You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.
basketball team leader
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.
basketball kids play
Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.
basketball humbling-experiences humbling
It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.
basketball jobs fun
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.
basketball mother blessed
I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
basketball love-is challenges
I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.
basketball jesus men
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.
basketball wise team
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.
basketball kids son
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.
basketball athlete kids
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.
basketball selfish games
Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.
basketball balls teammate
I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.
basketball winning focus
I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.