Top 180 Quotes & Sayings by Allen Iverson
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Last updated on September 7, 2024.
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.
If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.
I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
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.
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.
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.
I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.
Personally I just want to win a championship.
If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.
A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.
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.
I don't watch college basketball.
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.
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.
I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
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.
It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.
I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad happy, then that would make me happy, you know what I mean?
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.
Any one of my shoes that I had, you knew that, night in, night out, I gave my teammates and my fans everything that I had.
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.
I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.
Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn't make him a good guy.
You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.
I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
Everybody is their own person.
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.
I wasn't afraid to be who I am. I didn't think anything was wrong with it.
I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
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.
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.
You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
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.
What makes me feel good is all of the people that rooted for A.I. get a chance to say, 'He did what you never thought he could do. The critics. He did what you never thought he could accomplish.' This is a moment that me and my fans and my family and friends can share together because we always believed in the dream.
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
Being an All-Star is everything.
Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?
I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'
I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.
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.
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.
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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.
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.
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.
I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.
When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.
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.
I'm a Hall of Famer, and I can go outside today and go to a restaurant or wherever, and somebody will come up to me and say, 'Practice? We talkin' 'bout practice?' Man, I am a Hall of Famer, and that's all you can think about?
I just feel this is my planet.
Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
Detroit was a bad situation for me.
I may not know everything about physical talent or anything like that, but I have a sharp mind when it comes to that look: being able to look into somebody's eyes to tell if they are going to be in the foxhole with you tonight, or if they are not.
I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
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