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.
ALLEN IVERSONWhen 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.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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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I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
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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 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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There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.
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I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.
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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 don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.
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Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.
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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
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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.
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I don’t feel no type of way. I just understand that He helped me accomplish a lot of things in the NBA. I’ve done so many things that people thought that I couldn’t do.
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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 wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
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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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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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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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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to just play basketball.
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So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn’t want to let them down.
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People and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.
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I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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I want to play basketball so bad.
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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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