Quotes from Allen Iverson

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

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

Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn't make him a good guy.

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.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot

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.

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.

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.

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.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

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

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.

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 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.

Being an All-Star is everything.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.

Everybody is their own person.

If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.