I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
ALLEN IVERSONTattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.
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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 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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If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.
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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
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He’s helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there’s no Larry Brown, then there’s no MVP, Allen Iverson.
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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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I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.
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Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.
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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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Either you give in, or you fight. That’s all I know, being where I’m from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.
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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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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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I don’t feel no type of way. I just understand that He helped me accomplish a lot of things in the NBA. I’ve done so many things that people thought that I couldn’t do.
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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 wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
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Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I’m at a level now that I’m like, ‘I ain’t surprised that they said this or that about me.’
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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 surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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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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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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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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I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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I want to play basketball so bad.
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