I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.
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.
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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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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.
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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 make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.
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Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.
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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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If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.
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I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
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That’s the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That’s the only reason I’m here.
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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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All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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I want to thank coach Thompson, for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.
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Being 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.
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I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
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I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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Don’t nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.
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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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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.
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I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
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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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