“I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.”

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

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.

I just feel this is my planet.

I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.

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.

Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.

I want to play basketball so bad.

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.

Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.

My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.

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.

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.

You think I can be the MVP without practicing?

You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

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.