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" You see more friendships in the league. It's not like in the '80s when you had enemies, or you couldn't stand this guy, and there were fights all the time. "
Paul Pierce
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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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" When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender. "
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" 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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" My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on. "
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" I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks. "
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" 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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" 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 take the opportunity 3s, and I think I'm one of the better shooters. "
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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. "
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" Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. "
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" When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you. "
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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 respect our greats. I admire them. "
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" A lot of things change in the playoffs. "
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" Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player. "
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" It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have. "
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" 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. "
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" If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy. "
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