BOSTON CELTICS QUOTES
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
— Bill Walton
First Master the Fundamentals.
— Larry Bird
When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the silky patterned ties which sat in the base of one box like a writing mass of snakes. Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase filled with yawning crocuses, a needlepoint pillow … Overall, the house looked much like her apartment had eight years ago, before she had met him.
— Jodi Picoult
I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
— Larry Bird
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that’s happened to me as a player.
— Paul Pierce
I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could’ve at least had nine or eight.
— Wilt Chamberlain