Celtics Quotes

People don't understand why guys keep coming back, why a lot of older players who played for the Celtics keep coming back. It's the tradition.

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

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

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.

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.

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

In my mind, I would always be a Celtic. I was very thankful and humbled that the Hornets saw fit to allow me to play a couple more years, but the only time I thought of myself as a Charlotte Hornet was game time. Other than that, when the jersey came off, I still felt like I was a Celtic.

I always admired the Celtics from afar.

It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.

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

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's first famous sixth man, to do a piece for the magazine revealing some of the devious little tricks of his trade. Things like surreptitiously holding an opponent's shorts - nickel-and-dime stuff.

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

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

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.

I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.