Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
ALLEN IVERSONIt was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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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I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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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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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 went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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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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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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