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.
ALLEN IVERSONGuys 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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I 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn’t understand who I really was to a whole culture.
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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 wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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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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As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.
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I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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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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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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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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My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
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