It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
ALLEN IVERSONI 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 went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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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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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 dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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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 don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.
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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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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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Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. ‘Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.’ Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.
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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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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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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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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
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If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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