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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.

Allen Iverson

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Allen Iverson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 7
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Allen Ezail Iverson
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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.
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Being an All-Star is everything.
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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.
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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.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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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.
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I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.
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I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.
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I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.
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The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.
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Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.
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I went through what I went through because God said go through it
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I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
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