LeBron James Game Quotations

We have been doing a great job lately of closing out games on the road, and it was nice to see us able to do that here tonight. It's something we need to keep up.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

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.

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.

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.

He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself.

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

It would have been a disaster if we couldn't win this game after being up by 25.

We have to (win on the road). It's a tough place to play. We have to have the same mindset (we had in Game 1).

It's all about the team. We won a big game on the road. This was a game that had playoff atmosphere, especially late in the game.

We've been doing a great job of closing out games on the road lately. It's tough playing the same team twice (in a one-week span). We didn't want to put too much pressure on ourselves because of the guys they are missing. We tried come out and play like they had everyone.

I said I wouldn't have two bad games in a row.

It's about having intensity and playing at both ends for as close to 48 minutes as possible. You really can't put in a good game plan against a great team, you just have to go out and play.

This game had playoff intensity and it was good to see us respond.

We had to bring our 'A' game and that's what we did.

(The All-Star Game is) over and done with. We have to come in (tonight) and concentrate on Orlando. We've been (above .500) a couple times this year. We haven't been 11 or 12 games (over .500). It's time to make a run. We have a different mindset from last year.

That's something we stressed more today in practice. (We'll) try to work inside out and, hopefully, that will open the lane a little more. Z has had a tough time in this series, but he hasn't had an opportunity to have a good time. We are going to get him the ball early in the game and see how it goes.

I don't think we have had a defensive performance like that this season. We came in with the mind-set to get stops. That was the key to the game for us.

I don't think we were ready to play from the opening tip. Once you get to the point where every game means the same, where every game you play for 48 minutes, then you become a great team. Right now, we are not.

Coming off a back-to-back after a big win against Indiana, it was easy for us not to bring the intensity tonight. You can't win a big game like that and then lose a game like this.

Yeah both of them. I mean I saw them live too, we were sitting watching the game , we were sitting in the training room, unbelievable. You know it shows us how far the women's game has come.

We didn't want to get blown out on national TV. All in all, this is a game and we just want to have fun, but you know we're all competitors and our competitive nature kicked in at one point.

It was a perfect miss. That sounds crazy, but I missed it perfectly, and I followed it and got fouled, and we were in a position to go to OT, but I lost the game for us. I've never practiced that but I know how to hit the back of the rim and make it pop out.

Tonight was a big effort. We executed all through the game even when the reserves came in the last eight minutes. Those guys executed.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

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

To win in this environment was excellent. I'm not sure if I ever won here. I told you I was not going to have two bad games in a row.

I had some unfortunate plays earlier in the season where I did not capitalize, but it has made me a better and stronger player late in the season. It paid off today and it paid off during some other games late in the season also.

We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.

I think Charles Barkley kick-started us. I heard at halftime he said the game was over. I'd like to thank Charles for kick-starting us.

Drew goes with the flow. When he gets the ball, he produces. We don't run many plays for him. He had a hell of a game for us. We'll need him to do it again Friday.

We're real confident right now. We can win in any kind of game, up-tempo games, grind it out games, on the road games especially, which we were able to capitalize on this year. It's showing how much our team has grown.

It seems like they're trying to take my aggressiveness away. I've been called for more offensive fouls in this series (six) than all 82 games (34) combined probably.

I had a lot of fun. The All-Star Game is supposed to be fun and it was.

We are still getting better. We are becoming a good team and it is good to see that...We need to approach games like we do at home, which is difficult, but once we get to that point we will be much better.

Everybody that came into the game attacked. We have some things to work on, but we got the win and that's all that matters.

It is something we need to work on. We need to approach games like we do at home, but that's very difficult for every team in this league.