Lebron James: "I've got a beautiful mind" Also quotes Teddy Roosevelt

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LeBron James pulled back the curtain a bit Monday on his recent flurry of tweets and Instagram posts. On one hand, he downplayed the significance of the dispatches. "It's just my mind working, that's all," James said after the Cleveland Cavaliers held shootaround in preparation for the Memphis Grizzlies. "I don't know if anything started it. Just my mind working. I got a beautiful mind and I want to use it sometimes in a social manner."

However, he was sure to relay that there's a method to his messages. It's not just haphazard raving to his combined 47 million-plus followers on the social media platforms.

"They're for the educated mind," James said. "So if you have an educated mind, they hit home for you. [Sunday] night I tweeted that consistency and structure breeds perfection, and if you take a shortcut or if you don't handle business, then you come up short. I think everybody should understand that. It's nothing between the lines, it's just life. You can't shortcut being perfect or trying to be as perfect as you can, or trying to get to a point where you just feel like you can succeed. So, for educated minds, it should be fine."

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Any backlash James receives from the Twitter tactics, he says he is OK with it.

"Some of it I listen to, I use it as motivation," James said. "It never gets to a point in my mind where it's like, I should take it serious, because it doesn't matter ... If you've ever read Theodore Roosevelt, 'the man in the arena' [from his 1910 speech, "Citizenship in a Republic"], it basically just symbolizes if you've never been in the arena before, if you never had blood, sweat and tears before, felt the roar of the arena or been in the competition, then you can't really understand."

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