Top 140 LeBron Quotes

When I first left Nike to go work with LeBron and manage him, I was really bullish about managing other athletes. I really wanted to get more athletes besides LeBron and build this big management practice. And in hindsight that was a mistake.

I remember my first camps when I was in high school, freshman year. I did a LeBron James camp, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

Bron gave me a pair of his LeBron 1s in my size, the original Air Zoom Generation ones. My favorites are Jordan 1s, 11s and any kind of Air Maxes.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

I’m always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I’m LeBron James.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

You don’t coach a Magic Johnson, you don’t coach a LeBron, you don’t coach really a Lonzo. They understand the game, they smart, they understand.

It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he’s a drama queen.

I grew up watching LeBron.

Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they’ll take bad criticism in a good way.

I’m a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they’re both great. They both deliver.

I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to a championship is something I will always remember.

LeBron is always interested in giving fans a very close and detailed look at his life.

I’m a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He’s an incredible basketball player.

LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.

LeBron is not a fool.

I’m a big Bulls fan, Michael Jordan fan, LeBron fan.

I love LeBron, but Kobe was the first player I actually considered my favorite.

LeBron – he’s LeBron. He just won’t be denied, he’s the best player in the league and also a great person.

LeBron is the best player on the planet.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it’s sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.

You have to compete with LeBron James and Steph Curry, those guys, night in and night out. You can’t take a night off. You just have fun, be humble, but continue to work.

In my mind, LeBron James is the best player in the league.

I really don’t have a relationship with LeBron. I like it. He ain’t done nothing bad to me, I ain’t done nothing bad to him. So, as long as we good, we’ll be all right.

The best players in the league: LeBron, Carmelo, KD, Westbrook, people will say that they suck. People are always going to say something, so you really can’t buy into all of that. And that’s why I try to sometimes deviate from social media because – not that it gets to me, but sometimes it’s all just wasted energy.

The Klutch Sports Group and the Lakers don’t have an issue. Rich Paul and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. LeBron James and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. And Jeanie Buss and LeBron James and Rich Paul don’t have an issue. It’s very simple. Very simple.

I’m definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it’s pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.

At the risk of damaging the ‘First Take’ ratings, the God’s truth is I do not hate LeBron James. I actually like the man, who seems as close to being a role model as any superstar can be. He seems to be a good father and husband with a sharing, caring heart.

Game-playing is more fun when it’s virtual because you’re more successful. … in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

You can’t make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision – I think you can add to the vision – but you just can’t make an artist like that. That’s like saying Lebron James’ high school coach made Lebron James.

Since I was the No. 1 recruit I heard a lot of similar stuff like that, LeBron James comparisons. You definitely have to respect what he’s accomplished in this league.

Obviously you have LeBron, the best player in the world, all the attention is on him. A lot of the wins and losses are targeted towards him.

LeBron and Durant hang out all the time; fans are loyal and they get a little upset when they hear those things, but they need to realize that both are pushing each other really hard to be better.

At the end of the day I did have LeBron James on my team.

We’re a big family. We all want to see each other win. But I don’t introduce myself as LeBron James’ friend. I’m Rich Paul. You have to respect me first.

Yeah, once you get a taste of the playoffs – I couldn’t imagine not making it back to the playoffs. Give credit to LeBron and those guys who do it so many consecutive years.

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

LeBron is LeBron. They’re not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

Mentally I was retired, and physically I was retired. I was playing recreational ball. But when the decision happened with Chris Bosh and LeBron, I felt like I could really be good in that system.

Nobody’s going to be able to do every single thing better than everybody. Not even LeBron does everything better than everybody else. It’s all about using your advantages.

If I were LeBron, I would have gone to Chicago or I would have stayed home and showed a little more loyalty to my city and my team. But I’m not LeBron.

If LeBron doesn’t care about the regular season, why should fans? The answer: Russell Westbrook. Where LeBron and others are content to rest and save themselves for games they feel are more important, Westbrook has gone a different way.

LeBron is one of the greats. He’s going to hit tough shots. You have to be able to live with them and limit everyone else around him.

LeBron and I have always been about finding companies that we truly believe in and putting real money into them. We’re not talking putting in $15,000 or $20,000. It’s real money plus the expertise, understanding and knowledge that we bring, as well as bringing LeBron’s name and likeness to the product.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I’m playing my first game against him.

LeBron is not a good defender.

You can’t just walk up to Lebron James in a crowd of players and talk to him the way you can walk up to Jon Jones.

I don’t pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.

Guys like LeBron, Chris Paul, Kobe… They all speak to me. It’s just insane that all these top tier guys who have been in the All-Star game for so many years actually know who I am. I mean not in a million years did I think that Kobe would speak to me.

Make no mistake – LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he’s on his way to carving out the very best career that’s ever happened in the NBA.

We all know LeBron’s IQ is on another planet.

I’m not best friends with Giannis, and I’m not best friends with LeBron. I know them both, and I’m cordial with both.

To see LeBron win a championship for the city of Cleveland, I’m from Cleveland. It’s a big thing.

I want to hear LeBron James’s Uber stories.

I feel like my game is more like LeBron’s than Kobe’s, so that’s why I think I gravitated toward his game more.

LeBron’s probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.

The whole narrative of the ‘Return to the Land’ was completely PR spin. Fans ate it up because it painted LeBron as the hero coming back to save Cleveland from obscurity.

I always say I wish I was in my prime matching up against LeBron. Let’s see how many championships he would have won then.

I’m like LeBron, man. I’m like a smaller LeBron. That’s why I’m not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I’d be in the league.

The thing about LeBron is he’s very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball.

I mean, to be honest with you, my whole career I’ve guarded players that have outweighed me by 30 pounds. Period, ‘Melo to LeBron.

I’m well-versed on LeBron coming from Miami and his time there.