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 IVERSONI’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 IVERSONBeing older, I can’t imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid’s life. I will just never understand it. To me, it’s priceless.
ALLEN IVERSONMy mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
ALLEN IVERSONI wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
ALLEN IVERSONAll my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
ALLEN IVERSONIt was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSONI surround myself with people who make me laugh.
ALLEN IVERSONI have no regrets on anything. People ask me all the time, ‘Do I have any regrets?’ I don’t have any. If I could back and do it all over, would I change anything? No.
ALLEN IVERSONI 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 IVERSONMy actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
ALLEN IVERSONI wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
ALLEN IVERSONI went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
ALLEN IVERSONIf you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
ALLEN IVERSONYou used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
ALLEN IVERSONYou 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 IVERSONAs 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.
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