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 IVERSONMy whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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 want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
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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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I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.
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I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
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At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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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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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.
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Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. ‘Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.’ Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.
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This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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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.
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