Quotes from Paul Pierce

LeBron is a great post-up player, but if you get him to settle for the jumper on some nights, you might be able to slow him down if his shot is off.

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

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 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.

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

The fans of New York are very knowledgeable about the game of basketball. They love their sports here.

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.

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

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

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

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

I love the fact that, if I don't win multiple championships, that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who've done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.

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.

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.

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.