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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.

Allen Iverson

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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Game Lose Myself Score Winning
I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.
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Afraid Myself Thinking Wrong
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 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
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
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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Media Realize Stand Yourself
Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
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Coach Fame Player
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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Enough Money Myself People
Coming into the league, if I would’ve had money, then obviously I would’ve had more tattoos.
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League Money Myself
People and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.
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Criticism Myself People Understand Young
When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don’t feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don’t run my mouth.
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Lose Mouth Negative Run Talk Yourself
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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Coach Fire Player
I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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Better Feeling Myself
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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Block Evidence Life Live Yourself
Personally I just want to win a championship.
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Champion Myself Personal Winning
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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Charity Donation Mindset Money Talk Yourself
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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Myself Play Round Win
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
I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.
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Big Difference Home Project Reality
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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Better Inspirational Motivational Practice Yourself
I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
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Cost Mistake Myself
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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Career Myself People Watch
Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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Appearance Character Myself
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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Construction Criticism Myself
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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Growth Hard Time Learning Time
My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.
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Acceptance Ball Important Myself
I’ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids’ life and their future. I’m just happy. I’m just blessed. So anything that I’m not awarded doesn’t matter because I’ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime.
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Accomplishment Blessing Enough Future Myself Reward Time

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