I just feel this is my planet.
ALLEN IVERSONI 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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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
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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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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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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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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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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If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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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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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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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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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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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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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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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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