Top 158 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Pierce

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

Kids get influenced by other kids.

When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.

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'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.

When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.

The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.

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

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

The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people.

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.

It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment.

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

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

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.

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.

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

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

I've got three beautiful kids that wear me out after I get home from practice. I think that's a good thing so I'm able to get my rest.

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.

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

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.

A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.

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

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.

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

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

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.

The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.

I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think I've had an illustrious career.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

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.

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.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

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

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