I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.
ALLEN IVERSONCoach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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 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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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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If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I’m fortunate; I’m blessed to be in the situation that I’m in right now.
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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 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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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 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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It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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Everybody is their own person.
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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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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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 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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