LeBron James

“I still truly love this game, and I have more to give,”

“This is my last decision. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point?”

“I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning another championship.”

“He’s the one who’s given me so much game and has taught me so much.”

“One of the biggest factors as far as when the process for me becomes overbearing, and I don’t want to show up to the arena five hours earlier, or I don’t want to be at practice two and a half hours before practice start,”

“So many other factors that I’m factoring in right now on what not only best fit me as a player, what best fit me as a person, what best fit me as my happiness, and also with my family as well.”

“One of my main goals… is to open doors for kids that look like me growing up in the inner city,”

“In sports, there's always conversations, like, 'When is he going to retire? He needs to retire. He's this age. He's that age,'”

“I want to compete at a high level. I want to join a franchise that kind of shares the same motto as myself and that's practicing championship habits every day, but trusting the process more than anything ...”

“So everyone feels coming into the season, thinking, 'This could be our year.' Every fanbase feels like this could be our year as well.”

“There's been eight straight years of different champions,”

“But, why? Why? Why are we trying to force people that are still doing what they do at a high level, why are we trying to force a narrative of it's time to retire?”

“I heard Warriors ... I heard Philly ... Miami ... This guy just told me to come to the Yankees.”

“That was a hell of a question and some of the media people in here probably should learn from you, young fella,”

“You ask somebody who grew up in the LeBron era ... they're still gonna say Jordan.”

“If there's a general manager and he's eyeballing all of us on a baseline, with the No. 1 pick, it's gonna be hard not to take me, champ,”

“You ask somebody that grew up in the Jordan era, they're gonna say Jordan,”

“Rest his soul, Kobe will say the same thing. Magic will say the same thing. Bird will say the same thing. Shaq could say the same thing. The late great Wilt. Kareem. I don't think none of us are going to take somebody else.”

“I thought I was done when the season ended,”

“I was honest at that last press conference when I said I needed to look at myself and deicide if I still love this game,”

“That’s when I know it’s in for me.”

“It’s not just about the team,”

“I know that the game of basketball will always be with me no matter what,”

“I want them to feel welcome.”

“Most important is I want to compete,”

“I don't know if Embiid was even born yet.”

“So, I get that, too. ... It's just a little motivation.”

“I won't hold you guys up too much longer,”

“It's a big decision for not only myself, but for my family as well,”

“I spent eight great years with the Los Angeles Lakers,”

“didn’t we talk about this in the back?”

“first of all, that was a hell of a question and some of the media people here probably should learn from the young fella,”

“It’s going to be fun wherever I land,”

“I won’t hold you guys up too much longer,”

“I'm not taking nobody over me,”