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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, USA Today, Nov. 21, 2005
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, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 10, 2005
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, interview, Jan. 4, 2004
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, interview, Jun. 14, 2003
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, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 10, 2005
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, interview, Jan. 4, 2004
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, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 10, 2005
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, interview, Jun. 14, 2003
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