I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
ALLEN IVERSONThat’s the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That’s the only reason I’m here.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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I just feel this is my planet.
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I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.
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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.
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Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
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I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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I want to play basketball so bad.
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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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My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.
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I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
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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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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 want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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