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.
ALLEN IVERSONIf you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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I want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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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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So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn’t want to let them down.
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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to just play basketball.
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A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
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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 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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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
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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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You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.
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I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
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I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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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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