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I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.

Allen Iverson

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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Dedication Determination Fight Life Myself Resilience
Detroit was a bad situation for me.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bad Myself Situation
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
You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
ALLEN IVERSON

Police Suspect Thinking Yourself
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 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
Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
ALLEN IVERSON

Hard Time Live Talk Yourself
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Change Myself People Regret Time
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 IVERSON

Chance Myself People Thinking Understand
If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
ALLEN IVERSON

Age Growth Mental Myself Time Wrong
I just feel this is my planet.
ALLEN IVERSON

Feeling Myself Planet
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Myself People Recognition Situation
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
ALLEN IVERSON

Failure Myself Try
Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
ALLEN IVERSON

Leaving Live Myself Voice
I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.
ALLEN IVERSON

Man Myself Play Right
I 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 IVERSON

Children Game Hard Time Practice World

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