I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.
ALLEN IVERSONAt 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.
More Allen Iverson Quotes
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I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.
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I just feel this is my planet.
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You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
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LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.
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I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
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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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Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there’s no perfect man.
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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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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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I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.
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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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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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I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.
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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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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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If we lose games, and I don’t score a lot, they gonna say I’m not scoring enough.
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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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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 is their own person.
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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.
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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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Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.
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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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