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" I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team. "
Paul Pierce
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" I love the fact that, if I don't win multiple championships, that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who've done it before. That type of stuff motivates me. "
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" I'm a basketball junkie and a real historian of the game, so for me to get a chance to express it and give my perspective on a national stage, I'm really enjoying it. "
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" That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league. "
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" I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework. "
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" I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road. "
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" I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path. "
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" I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows. "
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Justice
Watch
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" Dislike is what creates rivalries. "
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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. "
Paul Pierce
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" I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there. "
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" You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble. "
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" You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up. "
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" I play a lot of pick-up games; I run a lot on my own. "
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Own
Lot
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" If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy. "
Paul Pierce
Easy
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" Old-school guys, they don't need to see the doctor, the massage therapist. We'd come in when we was 21; we'd go right to the court and start shooting. "
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Need
Right
" Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level. "
Paul Pierce
Level
I Think
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" Understanding history means knowing what motivates you. "
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" Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. "
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" Good things only can last so long. "
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" My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game. "
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" 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. "
Paul Pierce
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" My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on. "
Paul Pierce
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" The whole business of basketball with China, it's just a huge business that enables us to come over and connect with them and continue that fan affair. "
Paul Pierce
China
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Us
" 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. "
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Doing
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" I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks. "
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Classic
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" In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak. "
Paul Pierce
Losing
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" Understanding who you are is saying, 'You're great; you have tons of confidence, and don't ever forget that.' And that helped me, man. Because when things weren't going right, I thought, 'You've got to remember who you are. Don't stray from that. Don't let these things get you down.' "
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" Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.' "
Paul Pierce
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" Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run. "
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" I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way. "
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