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" I want to be the dad that my father never was. "
Paul Pierce
Dad
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Father
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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. "
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" Kids get influenced by other kids. "
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" Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it. "
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" You can actually get calls by yelling, 'And one!' as you release. "
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" I think I've had an illustrious career. "
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" I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life. "
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" The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone. "
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" Every kid who just played basketball knew about the Boston Celtics. They're one of the few teams who were always on national TV along with the Lakers. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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Love
Win
" 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. "
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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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Always
Wonder
Up
" Good things only can last so long. "
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Last
Good
Good Things
" 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
" 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. "
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Understand
Tired
Losing
" 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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" 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. "
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Game
Think
Style
" The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people. "
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People
Media
New York
" It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have. "
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Care
People
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Who
Single
Out
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Guy
Competitor
" I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit. "
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" 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. "
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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 love walking the streets of New York. "
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Streets
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Love