“You think I can be the MVP without practicing?”

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

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.

There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.

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.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

I didn’t do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.

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.

I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.

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.

I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.

I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.

I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.

He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.

It’s about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.

Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.’