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" 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. "

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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. "

Paul Pierce

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Basketball

Kid

" Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. "

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

" The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships. "

" 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. "

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

" I respect LeBron. People think we have a hate for each other, but I totally respect what he's done. "

" 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 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. "

" Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there. "

" I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages. "

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

" 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. "

" I can't remember last time I had a soda. It tastes like acid to me now. "

" 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. "

" Kids get influenced by other kids. "

" 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. "

" When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away. "

" Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.' "

" 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. "

" 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 have an opinion. I have a right to have one, and that's the way I feel. "

" I am a confident player, and a lot of people might look at it like, 'Oh, another cocky attitude,' but I don't look at it that way. "

" I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars. "

" My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was. "

Paul Pierce

College

Attitude

" At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp. "

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

" 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. "