Quotes from Allen Iverson

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?'

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 was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

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.

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

I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

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.

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.

I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.

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 always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.

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

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.

Only the strong survive.

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

I want to thank coach Thompson... for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

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.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

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

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

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