I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
ALLEN IVERSONThis is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
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It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
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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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I’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse.
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Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I’m at a level now that I’m like, ‘I ain’t surprised that they said this or that about me.’
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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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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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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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If I don’t believe it, then they don’t need me on the court. I’ve just got to believe that in my heart.
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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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When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don’t feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don’t run my mouth.
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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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I want to play basketball so bad.
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