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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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" Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. "

Paul Pierce

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" The fans of New York are very knowledgeable about the game of basketball. They love their sports here. "

" 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. "

" I respect our greats. I admire them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Dislike is what creates rivalries. "

" 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

" 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.' "

" After 18 NBA years, it's hard to believe I'll be playing in each arena for the last time. "

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

" The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game. "

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

" 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've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life. "

" Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level. "

" 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. "

" I'm an old-school guy. I'm a competitor. "

Paul Pierce

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" You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game. "