It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
ALLEN IVERSONI just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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.
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Personally I just want to win a championship.
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If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I’m fortunate; I’m blessed to be in the situation that I’m in right now.
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I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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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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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.
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You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
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I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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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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I just feel this is my planet.
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All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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.
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Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.
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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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