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

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" 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. "

" Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player. "

" When I set my goals, I set them to where they fit within the team concept. "

" Kids get influenced by other kids. "

" The game isn't over till the clock says zero. "

" 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 want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework. "

" Dislike is what creates rivalries. "

" 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 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. "

" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "

" I'm an old-school guy. I'm a competitor. "

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

" 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. "

" Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo. "

" It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have. "

" You can actually get calls by yelling, 'And one!' as you release. "

" When Shaq gave me the nickname, it wasn't no Joe-Bob giving you a nickname. This is Shaq. It was like, whoa. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this. "

" 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. "

" Understanding history means knowing what motivates you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me. "

" Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it. "