I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
ALLEN IVERSONI wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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I want to play basketball so bad.
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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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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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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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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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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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Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. ‘Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.’ Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.
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My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
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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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Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I’m at a level now that I’m like, ‘I ain’t surprised that they said this or that about me.’
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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to just play basketball.
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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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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 gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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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.
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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’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.
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Everybody is their own person.
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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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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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My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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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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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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There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.
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You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
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