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" I like being around people. "
LeBron James
Like
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" I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. "
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" I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. "
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" I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man. "
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" In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160. "
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" Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about. "
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" 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. "
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" No place is better than Akron. "
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" I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop. "
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" I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? "
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" 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. "
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" I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. "
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" I'm confident with my ability. "
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" Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. "
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" Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times. "
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" But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. "
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" I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. "
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" When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. "
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" 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! "
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" There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much. "
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