Paul Pierce Quotes

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Paul Pierce

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 13, 1977

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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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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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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I can't remember last time I had a soda. It tastes like acid to me now.

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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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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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The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

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I think I've had an illustrious career.

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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'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.

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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.

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We used to play 'Double Dribble' on Nintendo. Later, in high school, it was more 'NBA Live' and 'John Madden Football.'

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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.

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You definitely gotta get more rest as an older player than you did when you were young. You're young, full of energy. You're out, up late, watching movies or out hanging out with your friends.

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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.

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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 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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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.

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LeBron is a great post-up player, but if you get him to settle for the jumper on some nights, you might be able to slow him down if his shot is off.

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

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