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.
ALLEN IVERSONThis is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to just play basketball.
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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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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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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 make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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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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My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
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I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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 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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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 want to play basketball so bad.
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All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
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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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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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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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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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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.
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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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Everybody is their own person.
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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 really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
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