Everybody is their own person.
ALLEN IVERSONI didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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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Don’t nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.
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Either 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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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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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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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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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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I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
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I’ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids’ life and their future. I’m just happy. I’m just blessed. So anything that I’m not awarded doesn’t matter because I’ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime.
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Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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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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I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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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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