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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.

Allen Iverson

I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
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Myself Past Regret
Detroit was a bad situation for me.
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Bad Myself Situation
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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Believe Inspirational Mom Motivational Myself
This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Children Dreams League Yourself
Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.
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Grown Man Original
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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Imagination Myself Old Parents Price Understand
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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Dedication Desire Greatness Myself Play Ride Sports
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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Dedication Determination Fight Life Myself Resilience
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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Fans Feeling Help Myself People Vote
I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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Better Feeling Myself
My actions, right or wrong, there were people who supported me through this long, hard journey.
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Action Hard Time Journey Myself Right Support
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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Bite Expression Greatness Love Media Myself Obvious Sound
Everybody is their own person.
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One Liner Person
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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Chance Myself People Thinking Understand
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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Learning Myself People See Skin Writing
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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Believe Heart Myself Need
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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Hard Time Live Talk Yourself
I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.
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Care Feeling Myself Trade
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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Change Myself People Regret Time
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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Believe Myself People Support
I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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Laughter Myself People Surround
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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End Point Retirement
If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.
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Age Growth Mental Myself Time Wrong
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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Myself Start Trend
Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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Appearance Character Myself
Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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Hard Time Life Understand
At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn’t understand who I really was to a whole culture.
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Culture Myself Time Understand Young

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