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.
ALLEN IVERSONI 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.
ALLEN IVERSONObviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.
ALLEN IVERSONIt was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSONIf I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
ALLEN IVERSONI gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
ALLEN IVERSONI 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.
ALLEN IVERSONI just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.
ALLEN IVERSONMy whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.
ALLEN IVERSONI just feel this is my planet.
ALLEN IVERSONIf you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
ALLEN IVERSONI dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
ALLEN IVERSONMan, 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.
ALLEN IVERSONI wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
ALLEN IVERSONComing into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
ALLEN IVERSONYou used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
ALLEN IVERSONPeople and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.
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