I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
ALLEN IVERSONIf you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
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I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
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I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing 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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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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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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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 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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It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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I wasn’t a point guard. I was a killer.
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If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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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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You don’t want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don’t want to hear about that.
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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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Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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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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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.
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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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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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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 wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
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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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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 failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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