Quotes About Celtics

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

I can't speak for the Warriors but for me and my career, being traded to the Celtics changed the trajectory of my career.

The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.

I couldn't be more proud to be in the NBA, to be with the Celtics and be surrounded by the people I get to go to work with every day.

That's one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston - to contend and win a championship, especially with the history of the Celtics and what they stand for.

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.

Every kid who just played basketball knew about the Boston Celtics. They're one of the few teams who were always on national TV along with the Lakers.

The Celtics are an amazing franchise and a great organization to play with.

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

I did have that happen when I was with the Celtics once - I was there late and no one woke me up when I fell asleep in a chair. But at the Celtics they didn't like me as much, so they let me snooze away and made fun of me.

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.

I think Paul Pierce, the way he manufactures points, is the best player the Celtics have seen thus far.

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?

When the opportunity arose for me to join an organization like the Celtics, I could not refuse.

Her rise had been nothing short of meteoric—but nowhere near as meteoric as the tennis world's expectations of her. Her subsequent fall—at least, up until the time of the breakdown—was slow and painful. Not at all like yours. Your fall, if you don't mind me using that word, was far swifter. Guillotinelike. One minute you were the Celtics' number one draft pick. The next minute you were finished.

I grew up in the '80s in an era that was tough. The Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason. It wasn't dirty. It was just men playing basketball.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

Boston is one of the country's more insecure cities and see you it in Celtics fans.

It wasn't long after I joined the Celtics. The team was going through drills in training camp, and it didn't seem like everyone was going all-out. And then we started playing exhibition games, and I was able to get my shots, make my cuts, things like that. When the season started, the game slowed down for me. I was able to think my way around the court and see plays develop before they actually happened. That's when I realized I could play at a high level and be successful.

Del tried to concentrate on the Celtics and Sixers, and, surprising himself, he could. Funny how life worked.

I was a street kid, but that meant hopping a ride on the back of the MTA down to Revere Beach - that's the beach that's made out of concrete - or sneaking into the Boston Garden to watch the Celtics or the Bruins.