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

• Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

  

  Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
  • Strategy
  • Loyal
  • Consumer

• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

• I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That was my own fault.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Guy
  • Track
  • Fault

• We're not playing defense, ... We're not defending or rebounding the ball. That's taking away a lot of baskets because we can't run and we can't stop anybody.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Stop
  • Defense
  • Ball

• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Charity
  • Citizens

• 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