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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

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bruise Myself Pain Play Season
I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
ALLEN IVERSON

Cost Mistake Myself
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

Believe Myself People Support
It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
ALLEN IVERSON

Experience Greatness Hard Time
I didn’t do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.
ALLEN IVERSON

Cheer Man Myself People
Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.
ALLEN IVERSON

Change Man Myself Past Perfection
Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.
ALLEN IVERSON

Grown Man Original
I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.
ALLEN IVERSON

Man Myself Original Problem Style
Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
ALLEN IVERSON

Hard Time Live Talk Yourself
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.
ALLEN IVERSON

God Greatness Play Talent Wasted Time
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 just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.
ALLEN IVERSON

Children Game Hard Time Practice World
I want to play basketball so bad.
ALLEN IVERSON

Bad Myself Play
I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
ALLEN IVERSON

Belief Known Myself
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
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
ALLEN IVERSON

Failure Myself Try

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