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" 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. "
Paul Pierce
Golf
College
Good
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" 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. "
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" 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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" The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships. "
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" LeBron is a great post-up player, but if you get him to settle for the jumper on some nights, you might be able to slow him down if his shot is off. "
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" I respect our greats. I admire them. "
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Greats
Respect
" 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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" 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. "
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" You've got to be able to finish out the season on a strong note. "
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" I can't remember last time I had a soda. It tastes like acid to me now. "
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" You can actually get calls by yelling, 'And one!' as you release. "
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Release
You
Yelling
" I have an opinion. I have a right to have one, and that's the way I feel. "
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I Feel
" I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks. "
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" 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. "
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Line
Cross
" You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble. "
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" 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. "
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Nature
Myself
Fight
" People don't understand the power of love and family and strength. "
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Love
Strength
People
" 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. "
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" I love walking the streets of New York. "
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Streets
Walking
Love
" You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up. "
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You
Man
Listen
" If they're not talking about you, you're not doing something; you're not doing anything. So if they're talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation. "
Paul Pierce
Motivation
Talking
Doing
" Winning's not easy. In order to win, you've got to see the best. "
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Win
Winning
You
" 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 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
" 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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Win
Good
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" Kids get influenced by other kids. "
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Get
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Kids
" 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. "
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" I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me. "
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Game
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" I play a lot of pick-up games; I run a lot on my own. "
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" 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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" 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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Tired
Losing