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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.Collection: Allen
I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.Collection: Allen
It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.Collection: Allen
I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.Collection: Allen
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.Collection: Allen
I got a lot of love for NBC, Tom Brokaw. He did a lot for me, and I appreciate him, and I owe a lot to him for that.Collection: Allen
I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.Collection: Allen
I don't have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That's the way it's supposed to be, man.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.Collection: Allen
I want to play basketball so bad.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I'm a father; I'm a friend. I think I've got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that's not a good thing. It's a gift and a curse.Collection: Allen
I didn't do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.Collection: Allen
That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.Collection: Allen
LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.Collection: Allen
Detroit was a bad situation for me.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.Collection: Allen
You don't want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don't want to hear about that.Collection: Allen
If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.Collection: Allen
Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'Collection: Allen
My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.Collection: Allen
Doing this for so long, I realize that the media - you have a boss. And your boss wants you to provide the best material that you can. And he might put pressure on you to do it a way that you feel is unconstitutional. You might not like it. But you still gotta feed your family.Collection: Allen
I wish the media and people that work in media would realize sometimes - and I know it doesn't pay your bills - but sometimes just sit back and think, like, 'Man, what if this was my child? And somebody was doing this to them? And they had to go through it? If somebody bashed them like this?'Collection: Allen
I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
You look at guys on the court, man. You got this guy with this brand of shoe, and this guy with this brand - they're just wearing the shoe. But it's a whole different feeling when you got a shoe on, and it's yours.Collection: Allen
All I ever wanted to do was wear Jordans. I think there was only one or two pair I never had.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.Collection: Allen
Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.Collection: Allen
I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.Collection: Allen
All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
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.Collection: Allen
I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.Collection: Allen