It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
ALLEN IVERSONAll my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.
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So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn’t want to let them down.
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I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.
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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 knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
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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 is their own person.
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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 think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
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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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