When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
ALLEN IVERSONI wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.
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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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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’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse.
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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 wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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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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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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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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Personally I just want to win a championship.
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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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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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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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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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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 make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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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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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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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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Don’t nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.
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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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I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, 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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It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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