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" I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars. "

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" It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment. "

" Understanding history means knowing what motivates you. "

" I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position. "

" I am a confident player, and a lot of people might look at it like, 'Oh, another cocky attitude,' but I don't look at it that way. "

" I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything. "

" I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me. "

" The game isn't over till the clock says zero. "

" I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems. "

" When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away. "

" It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known. "

" Everybody is entitled to an honest opinion. "

" I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship. "

" It's just something I've always loved to do: talk basketball. It's easy for me to give my perspective, my analyst approach to it, because even when I played, I would watch film, talk about the game. "

" I originally was more into baseball and football, but being in Los Angeles, you just couldn't help but to fall in love with the game of basketball because they had such a winning tradition. "

" These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining. "

" I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue. "

" Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her. "

" When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team. "

" I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That's just not me. I wanna fight - let's go! I mean, I'm gonna stand up for myself. That's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in. "

" I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn. "

" My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was. "

" We used to play 'Double Dribble' on Nintendo. Later, in high school, it was more 'NBA Live' and 'John Madden Football.' "

" I always say I wish I was in my prime matching up against LeBron. Let's see how many championships he would have won then. "

" Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player. "

" I play a lot of pick-up games; I run a lot on my own. "

" I think I've had an illustrious career. "

" Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don't work out. But when I won, I mean, I had my good times, but I used it as motivation to do it again. When you realize you can accomplish something so great, you want to do it again. "

" What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up. "

" The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered. "

" The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that. "