Paul Pierce Quotes

We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.

We just have to be in the mindset that we are going to be winning games.

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

I've told the guys to keep their heads up. I really believe we played a great game here.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

When things go bad, the best thing to do is keep working and keep coaching.

When you have confidence, the atmosphere in the dressing room also improves.

Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it's a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

Sometimes, against the underdog, you can lose because they want it more. It happens to every team.

Throughout COVID, I just consistently grinded at my craft. I didn't let COVID get in the way of my goal and the goal is to be the best me that I can be for the team.

Obviously, we don't want to go into a World Cup thinking low about the team. We are very positive and had some good practice matches, which should give us confidence.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

As an entrepreneur, you're going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.

I love the U.S.A. women's soccer team. I'm really a fan of them, how they play as a team, the spirit they have. They really motivate a lot of people.

We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.