Quotes from LeBron James

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

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.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

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.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

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 like criticism. It makes you strong.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

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

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

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.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.

We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.