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I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

Allen Iverson

Detroit was a bad situation for me.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bad Myself Situation
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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End Point Retirement
Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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League Money Myself
I want to play basketball so bad.
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Bad Myself Play
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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Accomplishment Blessing Enough Future Myself Reward Time
I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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Mistake Myself
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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Career Help Himself Player
There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.
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Goodness Positive Sale
Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.
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Career Myself People Watch
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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Failure Myself Try
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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Hard Time Live Talk Yourself
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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Man Myself Original Problem Style
I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.
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Chance Myself People Thinking Understand
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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Aware Donation Money Scholarship
I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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Big Difference Home Project Reality
You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
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Police Suspect Thinking Yourself
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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Charity Donation Mindset Money Talk Yourself
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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Myself Start Trend
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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Learning Myself People See Skin Writing
Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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Coach Fame Player
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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Big Dreams Endurance Fulfill Myself Strong
Everybody is their own person.
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One Liner Person
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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God Greatness Play Talent Wasted Time
I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.
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Care Feeling Myself Trade
My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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Action Hard Time Journey Myself Right Support
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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Better Inspirational Motivational Practice Yourself
I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
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Care Defend Myself People Time

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

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I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

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