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.
ALLEN IVERSONI can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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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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LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.
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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 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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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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You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.
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If I don’t believe it, then they don’t need me on the court. I’ve just got to believe that in my heart.
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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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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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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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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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A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
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I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.
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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 just feel this is my planet.
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That’s the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That’s the only reason I’m here.
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Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.
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Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.
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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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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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I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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Personally I just want to win a championship.
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