James Comey: LeBron James Was My FBI Role Model

RUSH EXCERPT:

STEPHANOPOULOS: "And when you’re director of the FBI you talked a lot about what you learned about leadership from probably the biggest star in the NBA."
COMEY: "Yeah, Lebron James. A man I’ve never met. I resemble only being the same height and everything else is in shoulders about twice mine but I admire Lebron James and he’s probably about to find out I used to talk about him all over the FBI and say, he illustrates what the endless pursuit of excellence looks like. I don’t want to offend anybody but he’s the best basketball player on Earth today. There may be —"
STEPHANOPOULOS: "Uh-oh."
COMEY: "I’m sorry."
STEPHANOPOULOS: "You can’t make anybody happy."
COMEY: "Year 15 and still the top of the game but every off-season he tries to find a part of his game better which is crazy because he’s already better than everybody else. It’s because he measures himself not against others but himself. I used to say inside the FBI, this is a great organization, but it’s not good enough. It can’t ever be good enough. We have to find parts of our game to make better. Look at Lebron James. And so that’s how I’ve used him as an example."