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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.

Allen Iverson

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
ALLEN IVERSON

Appearance Friendship Growth Myself
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
ALLEN IVERSON

Failure Myself Try
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Aware Donation Money Scholarship
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Man Myself Original Problem Style
I want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
ALLEN IVERSON

Coach Gratitude Myself Opportunity Thankful
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Big Dreams Endurance Fulfill Myself Strong
If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
ALLEN IVERSON

Age Growth Mental Myself Time Wrong
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Learning Myself People See Skin Writing
I didn’t do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.
ALLEN IVERSON

Cheer Man Myself People
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Lose Mouth Negative Run Talk Yourself
Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
ALLEN IVERSON

Appearance Character Myself
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bite Expression Greatness Love Media Myself Obvious Sound
If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
ALLEN IVERSON

Enough Game Lose Myself Score
It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
ALLEN IVERSON

Experience Greatness Hard Time
At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.
ALLEN IVERSON

End Point Retirement
I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
ALLEN IVERSON

Mistake Myself

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.

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