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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Paul Pierce

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Best

You

" I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road. "

" The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone. "

" I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist; I knew that early. When they started talking about dissecting frogs, I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist. "

" 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. "

" If I see LeBron walking down the street, it's not going to be no fistfight. I've got a lot of respect for him. "

" I love getting up - in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train. "

Paul Pierce

Train

Just

" It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have. "

" 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. "

Paul Pierce

Perspective

Chance

" I remember I didn't know who Jason Williams was, and he got drafted ahead of me. It was just weird. I thought I'd be in the top five, and I slipped all the way to 10, so it was a strange night for me. "

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

Paul Pierce

Mentality

Changing

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paul Pierce

Justice

Watch

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paul Pierce

You

Time

" I've always been known as a pure scorer, and I've always said if I just sat outside and shot 3s and just really focused on that - coming off of screens and spot-up 3s - and shot six or seven 3s a game, I would probably be more known as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history. "

" Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo. "

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

" I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework. "

" 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

Say

" I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. "

" I just love the pressure, truthfully, man. "

" I always thrive on wanting to play against the best. "

" You can actually get calls by yelling, 'And one!' as you release. "

" Everybody is entitled to an honest opinion. "

" People probably won't even remember I played for the Clippers. "

" I love walking the streets of New York. "

" A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work. "

" I've got three beautiful kids that wear me out after I get home from practice. I think that's a good thing so I'm able to get my rest. "

" A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything. "

Paul Pierce

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