As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.
ALLEN IVERSONI failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.
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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
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I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.
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I didn’t do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.
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When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don’t feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don’t run my mouth.
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I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.
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Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
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I’ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids’ life and their future. I’m just happy. I’m just blessed. So anything that I’m not awarded doesn’t matter because I’ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime.
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I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
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So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn’t want to let them down.
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You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
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I have no regrets on anything. People ask me all the time, ‘Do I have any regrets?’ I don’t have any. If I could back and do it all over, would I change anything? No.
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I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.
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People and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.
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I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.
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I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.
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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.
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