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.
ALLEN IVERSONEither 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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Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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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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You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.
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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wasn’t a point guard. I was a killer.
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I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
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I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
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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.
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I’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse.
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At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn’t understand who I really was to a whole culture.
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