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

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

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.

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.

I wasn’t a point guard. I was a killer.

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.

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.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

He’s helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there’s no Larry Brown, then there’s no MVP, Allen Iverson.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

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.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Cats know not how to pardon.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

It’s a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure…you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.