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

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.

Paul Pierce

You Use Us

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

Paul Pierce

Zero Till T

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

Paul Pierce

Time Tim Tastes

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.

Paul Pierce

Money Your You

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

Paul Pierce

Work Yourself Yours

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.

Paul Pierce

Wore Wit Typical

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

Paul Pierce

Home Ways Way

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.

Paul Pierce

Art Tis Tin

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

Paul Pierce

Ways Way Wanted

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

War Power Love

It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known.

Paul Pierce

History York Tory

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.

Paul Pierce

Movies Your Young

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

Paul Pierce

Christmas Tory T

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

Paul Pierce

Art You Years

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

Paul Pierce

You Teams Team

I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn.

Paul Pierce

Want T Says

You've got to be able to finish out the season on a strong note.

Paul Pierce

You T Strong

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

Watch Us TV Shows

I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.

Paul Pierce

Men Your You

Good things only can last so long.

Paul Pierce

Good Things Thing

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

Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this.

Paul Pierce

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

I respect LeBron. People think we have a hate for each other, but I totally respect what he's done.

Paul Pierce

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

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

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.

Paul Pierce

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

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

Paul Pierce

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.

Paul Pierce

When you're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation?

Paul Pierce

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

I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life.

Paul Pierce

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

I want to see my child grow.

Paul Pierce

Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it.

Paul Pierce

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

Paul Pierce

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.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road.

Paul Pierce

People don't understand the power of love and family and strength.

Paul Pierce

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

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

Paul Pierce

Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don't work out. But when I won, I mean, I had my good times, but I used it as motivation to do it again. When you realize you can accomplish something so great, you want to do it again.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

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.

Paul Pierce

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

Paul Pierce

Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level.

Paul Pierce