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.
ALLEN IVERSONEverybody 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.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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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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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Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.
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Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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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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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.
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You don’t want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don’t want to hear about that.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.
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A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
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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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If I don’t believe it, then they don’t need me on the court. I’ve just got to believe that in my heart.
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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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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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