Quotes About Paul Pierce

#1. Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

Bill Simmons

#2. I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.

Tequan Richmond

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

Paul Pierce

#4. It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.

Paul Pierce

#5. I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

Paul Pierce

#6. 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

#7. When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.

Paul Pierce

#8. At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is winning the ballgame.

Paul Pierce

#9. Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

Paul Pierce

#10. I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

Paul Pierce

#11. 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.

Paul Pierce

#12. 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.

Paul Pierce

#13. 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.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

#15. When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.

Paul Pierce

#16. A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

Paul Pierce

#17. 'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time.

Paul Pierce

#18. The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.

Paul Pierce

#19. It's always been my dream to play in the NBA.

Paul Pierce

#20. I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff. You just get me an In-N-Out burger and some Popeye's fried chicken and I'm straight.

Paul Pierce

#21. Who cares who gets the last shot or scores the most points? Who cares who gets the credit? If we win, we're all winners.

Paul Pierce

#22. 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

#23. At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

Paul Pierce

#24. When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

Paul Pierce

#25. I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.

Paul Pierce

#26. Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

Paul Pierce

#27. Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Paul Pierce

#28. 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.

Paul Pierce

#29. Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

Paul Pierce

#30. Kids get influenced by other kids.

Paul Pierce

#31. I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.

Pierce Brosnan

#32. There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Paul Pierce

#33. 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.

Paul Pierce

#34. My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

Paul Pierce

#35. I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

Paul Pierce

#36. I've never been on the cover of a game. When people go into the store and see me on the cover of a game, maybe that will entice them to buy it.

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#37. You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

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#38. The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

Paul Pierce

#39. I just take what comes to me. If the drive is there, Im going to take it. If its not there, Ill take a pull-up shot. Im a confident player down the stretch and I feel like I can make the play when I have to.

Paul Pierce

#40. 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.

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#41. I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.

Paul Pierce

#42. Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

Paul Pierce

#43. 'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

#45. Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

Charlie Pierce

#46. 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.

Paul Pierce

#47. At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

Paul Pierce

#48. A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Paul Bowles

#49. I look for challenges to keep me going.

Paul Pierce

#50. 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.

Paul Pierce

#51. Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

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#52. Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games.

Paul Pierce

#53. A lot of guys look toward me for leadership. I feel like I can provide some of that.

Paul Pierce

#54. I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

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#55. The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.

Paul Pierce

#56. You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

Paul Pierce

#57. Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

Paul Pierce

#58. Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

Paul Pierce

#59. It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

Paul Pierce