Top 115 Allen Iverson Quotes

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

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.

There’s nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it’s something positive about Allen Iverson.

I’m the biggest Westbrook fan, I think, there is. You know what I mean? Because he reminds me so much of myself as far as his heart and laying it on the line night in and night out. Just a guy that’s going to bring it every single night.

I want to play basketball so bad.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

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

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 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.

I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing 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.

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’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 surround myself with people who make me laugh.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I’m the biggest Westbrook fan, I think, there is. You know what I mean? Because he reminds me so much of myself as far as his heart and laying it on the line night in and night out. Just a guy that’s going to bring it every single night.

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.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

I don’t watch college basketball.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.

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.

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.

I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

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.

You think I can be the MVP without practicing?

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?

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

Everybody is their own person.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

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.

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

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.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.

Everybody is their own person.

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

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 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 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.

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

You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.

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 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.

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.

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

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.

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.

I’m just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It’s actually ‘my shoe.’

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

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.

I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

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.

I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.

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.

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.