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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

Allen Iverson

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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Aware Donation Money Scholarship
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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Dedication Desire Greatness Myself Play Ride Sports
My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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Action Hard Time Journey Myself Right Support
So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn’t want to let them down.
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Believe Myself People Support
If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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Enough Game Lose Myself Score
This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Children Dreams League Yourself
I want to play basketball so bad.
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Bad Myself Play
It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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Experience Greatness Hard Time
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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Dedication Determination Fight Life Myself Resilience
I want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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Coach Gratitude Myself Opportunity Thankful
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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Police Suspect Thinking Yourself
I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.
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Game Lose Myself Score Winning
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.
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Chance Myself People Thinking Understand
I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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Big Difference Home Project Reality
If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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Age Growth Mental Myself Time Wrong
I just feel this is my planet.
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Feeling Myself Planet
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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Charity Donation Mindset Money Talk Yourself
If I don’t believe it, then they don’t need me on the court. I’ve just got to believe that in my heart.
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Believe Heart Myself Need
Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
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Hard Time Live Talk Yourself
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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Coach Fire Player
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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Myself Reason Team
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
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Blessing Game Play
Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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Bad Myself Situation
All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
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Afford Design Myself Tattoos
I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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Better Feeling Myself
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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Growth Hard Time Learning Time
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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Myself Play Round Win

It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

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