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" 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. "
Paul Pierce
Down
Him
Walking
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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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" I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade. "
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" It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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
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" I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way. "
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" I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue. "
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Important
Day
" 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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Always
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" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "
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Playoffs
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" I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks. "
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Cracks
Through
" 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
" 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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Man
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" The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that. "
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You
" 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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Myself
Line
Cross
" Eating right is part of my lifestyle now. "
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Right
Eating
Lifestyle
" 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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Beginning
Kind
Say
" 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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Me
Say
" When you're a young player, and you're starting to scratch your potential, you don't know how good you can be. "
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Your
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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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" That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league. "
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Face
Challenges
Afraid
" 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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Night
" I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make. "
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Honest
Opinion
" I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. "
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Person
Basketball
" I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks. "
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Team
Player