It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSONGod 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.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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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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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 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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If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
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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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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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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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I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
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I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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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 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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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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