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.
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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My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
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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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I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
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You hit road blocks in life, but I’m living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.
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He’s helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there’s no Larry Brown, then there’s no MVP, Allen Iverson.
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As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.
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There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.
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I wasn’t a point guard. I was a killer.
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Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
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God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.
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Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I’m at a level now that I’m like, ‘I ain’t surprised that they said this or that about me.’
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My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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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.
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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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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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Personally I just want to win a championship.
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Being older, I can’t imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid’s life. I will just never understand it. To me, it’s priceless.
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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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LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.
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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
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