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" 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. "

Paul Pierce

Basketball

Losing

Seasons

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" These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining. "

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

Paul Pierce

Train

Just

" 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. "

" The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered. "

Paul Pierce

Mentality

Changing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Eating right is part of my lifestyle now. "

" Boston is always going to be a second home for me. "

Paul Pierce

Always

Home

" I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team. "

Paul Pierce

Raiders

Favorite

" When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way. "

" I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a basketball junkie and a real historian of the game, so for me to get a chance to express it and give my perspective on a national stage, I'm really enjoying it. "

Paul Pierce

Perspective

Chance

" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "

" The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game. "

" Dislike is what creates rivalries. "

" I have an opinion. I have a right to have one, and that's the way I feel. "

" Good things only can last so long. "

" I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks. "

Paul Pierce

Cracks

Through

" After 18 NBA years, it's hard to believe I'll be playing in each arena for the last time. "

" 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. "

Paul Pierce

Justice

Watch

" I think I've had an illustrious career. "

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

" 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. "

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

Paul Pierce

Guy

Competitor

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Paul Pierce

Always

Late