Allen Iverson Quotes

We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.

Allen Iverson

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Think
  • Look

• I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Child
  • Most
  • Brilliant

• A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Feeling
  • Confidence
  • Growth

• Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Inside
  • Dear
  • Professor

• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dream

• One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Healthy

• My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Men
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Play
  • Injured

• I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • White
  • Sexuality
  • Chapel

• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Struggle
  • Destruction

• Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here in one place and there in another place at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Mechanic

• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Learning

• The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Energy
  • Defense
  • Iran

• We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Defense
  • Score
  • Ballgames