Allen Iverson Quotes

There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

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.

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

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

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 mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!

Only the strong survive.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

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.

If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

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.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson ... Michael Jordan, I'm sorry ... I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

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.

When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games 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.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.

I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player ... now it's my turn to laugh.

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Iverson: Man look, I hear you ... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange ... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game ... the actual game, when it matters ... We're talking about practice ...

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.

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

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.

Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

When you work hard, good things happen

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.