Quotes About Boston Celtics

#1. Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.

George Vecsey

#2. In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent.

George Vecsey

#3. I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Wilt Chamberlain

#4. It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating.

Gary D. Schmidt

#5. Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

M. Scott Peck

#6. I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Bill Walton

#7. It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Robert Kennedy

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

Paul Pierce

#9. I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Mitch Albom

#10. Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

Nicki Minaj

#11. You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

Joni Rodgers

#12. The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Red Auerbach

#13. Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

Jude Morgan

#14. Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points.
Or as Hillary Clinton would say, Too close to call.

Craig Ferguson

#15. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

#16. My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#17. You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

E. M. Forster

#18. Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Red Auerbach

#19. It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

Charles Barkley

#20. Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens