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.
ALLEN IVERSONI surround myself with people who make me laugh.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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I’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse.
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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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Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.
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I 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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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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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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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 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 had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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I don’t feel no type of way. I just understand that He helped me accomplish a lot of things in the NBA. I’ve done so many things that people thought that I couldn’t do.
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It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
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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 wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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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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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
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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 think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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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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