A biography for Paul Piercehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Winning's not easy. In order to win, you've got to see the best.”
“The game isn't over till the clock says zero.”
“Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.”
“The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.”
“These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining.”
“When you're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation?”
“The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.”
“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 always thrive on wanting to play against the best.”
“When Shaq gave me the nickname, it wasn't no Joe-Bob giving you a nickname. This is Shaq. It was like, whoa.”
“I take the opportunity 3s, and I think I'm one of the better shooters.”
“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.”
“I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.”
“When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.”
“What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.”
“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.”
“I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.”
“The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.”
“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.”