Paul Pierce
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.Collection: Attitude
'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Mom
I am a confident player, and a lot of people might look at it like, 'Oh, another cocky attitude,' but I don't look at it that way.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Money
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.
The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.
I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
I can't remember last time I had a soda. It tastes like acid to me now.
I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.
Kids get influenced by other kids.
Old-school guys, they don't need to see the doctor, the massage therapist. We'd come in when we was 21; we'd go right to the court and start shooting.
The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
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.
Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
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 like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.
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.
When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.
When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.
You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.
Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
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.
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.
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.
'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time.
When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
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.
The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people.
The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.
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.
The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.
I think I've had an illustrious career.
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'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.
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.
We used to play 'Double Dribble' on Nintendo. Later, in high school, it was more 'NBA Live' and 'John Madden Football.'