Athlete

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

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.

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.

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

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

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

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

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.

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

Everybody is their own person.

I just feel this is my planet.

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.

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.