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" I love getting up - in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train. "
Paul Pierce
Train
Up
Just
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" 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. "
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" I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas. "
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" I always thrive on wanting to play against the best. "
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Play
Best
" The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game. "
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Every
" I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way. "
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" These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining. "
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Get
Just
" You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble. "
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You
Know
Coaches
" 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. "
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Long Time
Time
Been
" When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance. "
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You
" I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls. "
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Lot
Biggie
Listened
" I'm happy I'm able to leave a legacy behind. I'm happy I was able to win a championship. I have no regrets about nothing. "
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No Regrets
Win
Nothing
" I was a typical K-Swiss guy with sweatsuits. I was a ball player, so the ballers, we wore our game shorts to class. We didn't really have a fashion in high school like other kids. "
Paul Pierce
High School
Fashion
Game
" When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you. "
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Like
Much
Years
" You see more friendships in the league. It's not like in the '80s when you had enemies, or you couldn't stand this guy, and there were fights all the time. "
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Like
You
Time
" 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. "
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Easy
Going
Great
" Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it. "
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Genuine
Mean
Say
" 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. "
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Basketball
Losing
Seasons
" Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. "
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Together
About
Coming
" If I had to single one guy out who is the most difficult player to guard in the league, it would have to be Carmelo. "
Paul Pierce
Who
Single
Out
" The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships. "
Paul Pierce
Anything
Championships
Celebrate
" 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. "
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Against
Great
Moment
" I respect our greats. I admire them. "
Paul Pierce
Them
Greats
Respect
" Eating right is part of my lifestyle now. "
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Right
Eating
Lifestyle
" 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. "
Paul Pierce
Perspective
Basketball
Game
" The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone. "
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Early
Fire
Competitive
" Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run. "
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You
Trying
Run
" I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. "
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Rat
Person
Basketball
" Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there. "
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New Job
House
Start
" Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this. "
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Seriously
Serious
Need
" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "
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Lot
Playoffs
Change