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I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.

Allen Iverson

You don’t want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don’t want to hear about that.
ALLEN IVERSON

Aware Donation Money Scholarship
This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
ALLEN IVERSON

Fans Feeling Help Myself People Vote
I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
ALLEN IVERSON

Laughter Myself People Surround
I’ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids’ life and their future. I’m just happy. I’m just blessed. So anything that I’m not awarded doesn’t matter because I’ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime.
ALLEN IVERSON

Accomplishment Blessing Enough Future Myself Reward Time
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 IVERSON

Lose Mouth Negative Run Talk Yourself
I just feel this is my planet.
ALLEN IVERSON

Feeling Myself Planet
I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.
ALLEN IVERSON

Learning Myself People See Skin Writing
I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
ALLEN IVERSON

Belief Known Myself
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.’
ALLEN IVERSON

Bad Hurt Level Myself People Surprise
This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
ALLEN IVERSON

Children Dreams League Yourself
He’s helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there’s no Larry Brown, then there’s no MVP, Allen Iverson.
ALLEN IVERSON

Career Help Himself Player
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 IVERSON

Dedication Determination Fight Life Myself Resilience
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Accomplishment Career Myself Practice Worst
You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
ALLEN IVERSON

Police Suspect Thinking Yourself
If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
ALLEN IVERSON

Black Discrimination Hate People Race White
I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
ALLEN IVERSON

Enough Money Myself People

I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.

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