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" Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. "
Paul Pierce
Together
About
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" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "
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" I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework. "
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" Good things only can last so long. "
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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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" I always thrive on wanting to play against the best. "
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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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" I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn. "
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" I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life. "
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Life
" I'm happy I'm able to leave a legacy behind. I'm happy I was able to win a championship. I have no regrets about nothing. "
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" You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble. "
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Know
Coaches
" I've got three beautiful kids that wear me out after I get home from practice. I think that's a good thing so I'm able to get my rest. "
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Practice
Beautiful
Good
" I really don't use a personal trainer. "
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Use
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" Understanding history means knowing what motivates you. "
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Knowing
History
Understanding
" I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. "
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Rat
Person
Basketball
" I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars. "
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Think
Down
See
" The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered. "
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Changing
Like
" 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. "
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Who
Single
Out
" 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
" 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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People
Me
Back
" Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level. "
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Level
I Think
Much
" When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender. "
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Bad
Defender
Defensive
" It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment. "
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Against
Great
Moment
" 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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Fall
Love
Winning
" 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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Wish
Always
See
" Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. "
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Game
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Style
" When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance. "
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Best
You
" It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have. "
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Care
People
Sometimes
" The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game. "
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Looking
Bigger
Every
" I remember I didn't know who Jason Williams was, and he got drafted ahead of me. It was just weird. I thought I'd be in the top five, and I slipped all the way to 10, so it was a strange night for me. "
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Way
Remember
Night