Allen Iverson Quotes
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Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.
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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.
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When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
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I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.
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I honestly thought as long as I got there before the ball went up, everything would be cool. I've been doing it that way my whole career and it never was a problem, even when coach (Larry) Brown was here.
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You have to be a strong teammate when you're playing with me. And I have to be strong myself because of the controversy, just putting me against my team one second, and then putting my team against me the next second.
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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We've got a guy on the team who was 8 years old when I first got into the league.
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I guess it's just having time to play with each other and learning each other, just finding out how he wants to play and vice versa. He told me coming into the season that he wasn't doing his job if I didn't average four or five more points than I had been, and he was right because I am. ... We work together. We find out what plays we want to run. When we call plays for him, he tells me things he can do to get me an easy basket. And when a play is called for me, I let him know, if they take certain things away from me, what I can get for him. So it's just having some chemistry, being together and having a coach that understands that both of us need the ball and understands how both of us want to play.
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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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John is going to feel bad because of the situation. Probably he will react to something not that serious because of the situation.
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When we rebound the ball, we're able to do that. We don't want to come down and play a half-court game all the time.
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We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.
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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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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
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If I leave Philadelphia, it's not because I want to leave. I'm still in love with the place. I want to be here.
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Being an All-Star is everything.
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I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach to say that he thinks my conditioning isn't there, that was something new for me. Because nobody never told me that, nobody questioned my conditioning or injuries or anything like that.
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We couldn't put the ball in the basket.
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We just needed win - period. We're just struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this would have been bad because we played really well defensively.
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I want to play. Obviously we didn't get it done the first time I was a part of that team. If God blesses me with another opportunity to try it, it would be an honor. I would have a second shot at fulfilling one of my goals.
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I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.
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I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
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It's an honor you know to be able to accomplish something like that knowing what he meant to this franchise and to the league. It's a great accomplishment, but without my guys, there's no way to get that accomplished.