Paul Pierce Quotes

I've been with five teams, played for a bunch of different coaches.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I started out wanting to coach football.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

No team can play really good in 50 games. During the season, you will not play that well all the time.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'

One thing is a pro is supposed to make certain plays, while a college player is learning to make plays.

I would love to go into coaching someday.

Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

When we are with the national team we are playing against much better players.