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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

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
People and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.
ALLEN IVERSON

Criticism Myself People Understand Young
You hit road blocks in life, but I’m living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.
ALLEN IVERSON

Block Evidence Life Live Yourself
I want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
ALLEN IVERSON

Coach Gratitude Myself Opportunity Thankful
My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
ALLEN IVERSON

Action Hard Time Journey Myself Right Support
I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
ALLEN IVERSON

Mistake Myself
You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
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Devil Finding Hide Himself
I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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Appearance Friendship Growth Myself
If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
ALLEN IVERSON

Enough Game Lose Myself Score
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
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
ALLEN IVERSON

Coach Fire Player
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
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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Media Realize Stand Yourself
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Chance Myself People Thinking Understand
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSON

Blessing Game Play
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bite Expression Greatness Love Media Myself Obvious Sound

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.

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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.

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