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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. "

Paul Pierce

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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 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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" I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows. "

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" I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks. "

" I want to be the dad that my father never was. "

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

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" Kids get influenced by other kids. "

" I love getting up - in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train. "

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

" People probably won't even remember I played for the Clippers. "

" Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her. "

" When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender. "

" Eating right is part of my lifestyle now. "

" 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. "

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" I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls. "